“Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!” WisdomPovertyDoorsKeysBlessedSakeIslamicHardship Author:Rumi
“... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.” MeanSelfCareHumanityPovertyStudySelf LoveSakeTake CareRidiculous Author:Mary Collyer
“To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.” ThinkingMenI CanFeelingsSchoolEvilSituationPovertyTeacherOughtSakePursueShockBent Book:Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen Source: Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen