Poor Life Quotes

• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Work

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Mistake, Opportunity

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• The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Successful, Rich Life

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2017

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, Jun.

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• What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

  Francois Mauriac

  Book, Forgotten, Enough

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• My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe

  Blaise Cendrars

  Dream, Flames, Gold

  Blaise Cendrars (1993). “Complete Poems”, p.18, Univ of California Press

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• Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Love, Would Be, Ships

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.353, Boydell & Brewer

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• A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.

  Clement Greenberg

  Smell, Mind, Satisfaction

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Life, Art, Important

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.39, Penguin

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• She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

  Maureen Johnson

  Home, College, People

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Last Little Blue Envelope”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, Ninety Nine

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• And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Flower, Adventure, Phrases

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• The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Men, Air

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.53

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Play, Goal, Car

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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• I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

  Joey Comeau

  Numbers, Choices, Esp

  "Overqualified". Book by Joey Comeau, 2009.

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• As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended with time; we, trusting Him, and yielding our hearts to Him, receive into our poor lives an incorruptible seed, and for us the soul-satisfying realities that abide forever mingle with and are reached through the shadows that pass away.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Heart, Reality

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

  Aldo Leopold

  Poor, Achieve

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.126, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Names, Lame, Innocent

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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