A Quote by George Orwell

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

George Orwell

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Poverty Spiritual

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George Orwell
British - Novelist
June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Paramahansa Yogananda

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

Pope Francis

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Mother Teresa

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

Alice Foote MacDougall

Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.

Croft M. Pentz

The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

Napoleon Hill

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

Larry David

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Dennis Banks

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

Pope Francis

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Teresa

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.