My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Poverty
Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished. – Bible Category: Poverty
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Category: Experience
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician. – Vernon Howard, 1967 Category: Healing
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin Category: Beauty