Life Quote by Guideposts

“The homeless were my new family. They embraced me. They waved and smiled and treated me with dignity and respect. We may be the…

— Richard LeMieux

“Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of…

— Alexander Masters

“You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk. If only…

— Alexander Masters

“The homeless embodied the final stage in a decline your life could have tended toward. You did not take them for victims, but for…

— Édouard Levé

“We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We…

— CrimethInc

“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.…

— J.R. Ward

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent…

— Nicole Krauss

“If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless.”

— Dodinsky

“Had you clothed the naked, had you given your bread to the hungry, had your door been open to every stranger, had you been…

— Basil the Great

“It was nothing like what I’d dreamed of when I was a little girl—what I had hoped for myself growing up. But it was…

— Bianca Scardoni

“My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow...”

— Auberon Waugh

“I felt like I was living at the bottom of a deep well completely shut up inside myself, cursing my fate, hating everything outside.…

— Haruki Murakami