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My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it. — Epictetus
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. — Oliver Goldsmith
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death. — Ban Ki-moon
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover. — Dorothy Fuldheim
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart. — Martin Luther
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. — Gwendolyn Brooks
I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. — Phyllis Diller
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything… — Eckhart Tolle
Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you. — Eckhart Tolle
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with… — Alan Alda
I have been heart broken. You can't breathe, your eyes are pouring a thousand tears a second and you can't foresee going on with love… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great… — George Eliot
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… — Robert Bly
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart… — Freya Stark
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the… — Anna Quindlen
I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from… — Elaine Stritch
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter

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