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“Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.”

People World Should Results Poverty Abyss Richness Haves And Have Nots

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“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

“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies”

“Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.”

People World Giving Feels Littles Ideas Helping Felt Poor Poverty Dying College Percent Guilt Charity Nine Guilty Fund Hospitals Ninety Starving Richness Scarcity Ninety Nine Poor Life

Author:Rajneesh

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

Self Poverty Meditation Loneliness Solitude Lonely Richness Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Loneliness And Solitude I Am Lonely Like Being Alone Loneliness In Life Being Unloved

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.”

Ifs Silence Known Poverty Taken Heard Forgotten Richness

Author:Nicole Krauss