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[...] If a bill arrives do not think “How will we ever pay this?” or “This will make us short,” for you are painting your picture of poverty, you see. [...]

[...] I had four lives following that of the most adverse circumstances to make sure that I understood the difference between luxury and poverty, pride and compassion. [...]

[...] In the deepest meaning there is no such thing as a victim, either of war, poverty, or disease. [...]

[...] Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had so cursed. [...]

[...] False teeth, eyeglasses, sacrificed organs or whatever, poverty, poor relationships. [...]

[...] Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had cursed. [...]

[...] Some of us are born so blessed with riches that we live in a world hardly imaginable to the majority of men, and others grow old and die in dark pockets of poverty, equally incomprehensible. [...]

Why would anyone choose a life of illness or poverty? [...]

In between excellent health and death through disease, in between wealth and perhaps gluttony, and poverty and starvation, in between a glittering social existence, the comfort of a family, and the utter loneliness of isolation, there are literally infinite variations and gradations of behavior, according to individual differences and prerogatives. [...]

[...] If you are poor and want to have more money, and try to maintain a belief in abundance — while still faced with the fact of present poverty — you must in your reality make some symbolic move that shows you are willing to accept a change.

A rich man who tries to be poor for a day to learn what poverty is learns little because he cannot forget the great wealth that is available to him, and he can very easily return to his fine home. [...]

[...] Dire poverty or great wealth.

[...] It is not virtuous to remind yourself of the poverty of others. [...]

[...] If you are poor you may feel quite self-righteous in your financial condition, looking with scorn upon those who are wealthy, telling yourself that money is wrong and so reinforcing the condition of poverty. [...]

[...] The poor do get poorer, the rich do get richer, because the poor become entrapped by their projections of poverty.

He was near to being a beggar, living in poverty. [...]

[...] An interesting sideline here: his stinginess in small matters is not so much the result of greed as an emotional attempt to maintain the psychic warmth of childhood, a childhood which was marked by poverty.

[...] Poverty was worthy, and proof of morality. [...]

In this life Ruburt chose poverty as a background, a mother who was not physically fit, a broken family. [...]

[...] Ruburt must have his failure, and relative poverty, or he fears destruction.

(11:40.) To some people wars, poverty, murder, treachery, corruption, are primary experience, and must be dealt with — as requiring immediate action. [...]