I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth,...
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Unknown
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who...
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Mother Teresa
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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Woody Allen
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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Mother Teresa
More Quotes By Katherine Boo
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn’t keep track of a child’s years when you were fighting daily to keep him from...
One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength–that he could chop a brick in half like Bruce Lee. “So let’s get a brick, ” replied a girl with whom he had once, injudiciously, shared this...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him.
