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“This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!”

Ifs Should Joy Sides Poor Poverty Failing Victory

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.”

Knows Feels I Can Shows Joy Poverty Sorrow Please Ego Yoga Riches Vanity Unhappiness Deceiving Show Me Just Do It Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.”

Humans Joy Grows Poor Poverty Rich Harvest Reap Manure

Book:A Chambermaid's Diary

Source: A Chambermaid's Diary

“We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.”

Knows World Should Ends Pain Joy Poverty Security This World Pride Sorrow Eternal Perfection Ease Flaws Humiliation Testing No Fear Richness Eternal Life Degradation No Pain Tainted

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.”

Has Beens Beautiful Joy Belief Beauty Poverty Sorrow Creatures Fellows Medicine Sickness Richness Delighted Forsaken

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.”

“There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.”

Joy Culture Poverty Native Disturbing

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.”

Knows Should Body Light Would Be Joy Heaven Friendship Poverty Sun Sweet Flower Seasons Distance Favors Pleasant Rays Exhausted Impart Without Friends

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Some suffer much from poverty and sickness, but are not humbled, and so they suffer without profit. But one who is humbled will be happy in all circumstances, because the Lord is his riches and joy, and all people will wonder at the beauty of his soul.”

People Inspirational Soul Christian Joy Suffering Religious Wonder Lord Poverty Circumstances Profit Riches Sickness Orthodox

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”

Real Joy Poverty Sorrow Riches Anticipation Propensity

Book:Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

Source: Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.”

Thinking Way Different Use Joy Stuff Imagination Poverty Come Up Different Ways

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)”

World Mind May Whole Joy Left Stars Water Born Behinds Poverty Air Land Fields Holy Clothes Casts Whole World Forests Ashes Easter Rebirth Left Behind Hereafter Resumes Epitaph Easter Day Lenten

Author:C. S. Lewis

“In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.”

Ends Past Joy Certain Secret Silence Poverty Simplicity Dinner Oil The End Of The Day Sweetness Lamps

Book:Happy Death

Source: Happy Death