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“When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.”

Littles Pain Poverty Sun Path Sky Sticks Clouds Passing Passings Righteousness Hiding Splendor Little Time Passing Through

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.”

Ifs Poor Poverty Sun Wind Clothes Winter Ran Our Family Torn Overcoat

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”

Fall Water Poverty Sun Fortune Ice Rays

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.”

Long Ends Pain Lasts Moving Used Grows Attention Poverty Sun Too Much Shrinks Unbearable Daylight Exposing Dormant Squalor

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”

Doe Order Names Poverty Sun Glory Treasure Grants Permit Sublime Begging Distinctive Franciscans Patrimony Begging You

Author:Francis of Assisi

“For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.”

Mind Doe Fall Hope Poverty Sun Rain Shining Hunger Babe

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.”

Loss Poverty Worry Sun Moon Disaster Pearls Marrow

Author:Sun Bu'er

“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

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”

“Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.”

Littles Poverty Sun

Book:Loverboys

Source: Loverboys

“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”

Men Work Poverty Sun Willing Sight Fortune Inequality Unemployment Exhibits Saddest

Author:Thomas Carlyle