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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adversity, affliction, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, austerity, be-determined, be-persistent, be-tenacious, carry-on, challenge, challenges, continue, deprivation, destitution, determination, difficult, difficulties, dire-straits, distress, doggedness, dream, dreamer, dreamers, endurance, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, firmness, follow-through, funny, give-up, go-on, go-the-distance, hammer-away, hang-in-there, hang-on, hardship, hardships, hilarious, hold-on, humor, humorous, humour, impecuniousness, indefatigability, inspiration, inspire, intransigence, joke, jokes, keep-at-it, keep-going, keep-on, leave-no-stone-unturned, mental-strength, mentally-strong, misery, misfortune, motivate, motivation, need, neediness, never-give-up, not-take-no-for-an-answer, obduracy, obstinacy, pain, patience, penury, perseverance, persevere, persist, persistence, pertinacity, plod-on, plug-away, poverty, press-ahead, press-on, privation, problem, problems, purposefulness, quotations, quotes, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, satire, soldier-on, stamina, stand-fast, stand-firm, startup, startups, staunchness, stay-the-course, staying-power, steadfastness, stick-it-out, stoic, stoicism, stoics, stop-at-nothing, strength, strength-of-purpose, strong, struggle-on, stubbornness, suffer, suffering, tenacity, tirelessness, travails, trial, trials, trials-and-tribulations, tribulation, tribulations, trouble, venture-capitalist, venture-capitalists, want, wretchedness
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Upton Sinclair
“But it is not likely that he had reference to the kind of anguish that comes with destitution, that is so endlessly bitter and cruel, and yet so sordid and petty, so ugly, so humiliating鈥攗nredeemed by the slightest touch of dignity or even of pathos. It is a kind of anguish that poets have not commonly dealt with; its very words are not admitted into the vocabulary of poets鈥攖he details of it cannot be told in polite society at all.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
tags: anguish, destitution, suffering
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“God鈥檚 decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: christmas, compassion, desire, destitution, dramatic, god, holidays, jesus, jesus-christ, passion, sacrifice
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Marilynne Robinson
“In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home
tags: destitution, home, restoration
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Paul Auster
“Today, as never before: the tramps, the down-and-outs, the shopping-bag ladies, the drifters and drunks. They range from the merely destitute to the wretchedly broken. Wherever you turn, they are there, in good neighborhoods and bad.
Some beg with a semblance of pride. Give me this money, they seem to say, and soon I will be back there with the rest of you, rushing back and forth on my daily rounds. Others have given up hope of ever leaving their tramphood. They lie there sprawled out on the sidewalk with their hat, or cup, or box, not even bothering to look up at the passerby, too defeated even to thank the ones who drop a coin beside them. Still others try to work for the money they are given: the blind pencil sellers, the winos who wash the windshield of your car. Some tell stories, usually tragic accounts of their own lives, as if to give their benefactors something for their kindness鈥攅ven if only words.”
― Paul Auster, City of Glass
tags: city-of-glass, destitute, destitution, homelessness, kindness, new-york-trilogy, paul-auster, poverty, the-new-york-trilogy, tramps
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Cormac McCarthy
“...Mellungeons鈥� their entire lives appeared devoted to the production of the ragged line of scions which shoeless and tattered sat for hours at a time on the porch edges, themselves not unlike the victims of some terrible disaster, and stared out across the blighted land with expressions of neither hope nor wonder nor despair. They came and went, unencumbered as migratory birds, each succeeding family a replica of the one before and only the names on the mailboxes altered, the new ones lettered crudely in above a rack of paint smears that obliterated the former occupants back into the anonymity from which they sprang.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
tags: bleak, destitution, generations, hopelessness, poverty, southern-lit
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Many a rich man鈥檚 bed is bigger than many a poor woman鈥檚 bedroom; his bedroom, her house.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: affirmative-action, affluence, affluent, bed, bedroom, beggary, broke, capital, cash, cleaned-out, destitute, destitution, dough, equality, filthy-rich, finance-assets, flat-broke, flush, fortune-money, funds, hard-up, hardship, holdings, house, impecunious, impecuniousness, impoverished, impoverishment, in-debt, in-the-money, indigence, indigent, inequality, insolvent, kitchen, loaded, low-income, lucre, made-of-money, means, moneyed, moneyless, moola, moolah, necessitous, need, neediness, needy, opulent, pauperdom, pauperism, pauperized, penniless, pennilessness, penury, poor, possessions, poverty, poverty-stricken, property, prosperity, prosperous, reserves, resources, riches, rolling-in-it, rolling-in-money, rolling-in-the-dough, securities, silk-stocking, size-counts, size-does-not-count, size-doesn-t-count, stinking-rich, stock, strapped-formal-penurious, substance, treasure, unable-to-make-ends-meet, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, wherewithal, without-a-cent-to-one-s-name, without-a-sou
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Luis Alberto Urrea
“[W]hen your politics no longer have room for empathy, things spin into an amoral chaos. Not only the desperate suffer. Who gets hurt and who stays safe becomes hard to predict.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea
tags: chaos, destitution, empathy, morality, politics, power, safety
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Erskine Caldwell
“It was still not too late to begin, but Jeeter did not have a mule, and he did not have the credit to purchase seed-cotton and guano at the stores. Up until this year, he had lived in the hope that something would happen at the last moment to provide a mule and credit, but now it seemed to him that there was no use hoping for anything any more. He could still look forward to the following year when he could perhaps raise a crop of cotton, but it was an anticipation not so keen as it once had been. He had felt himself sink lower and lower, his condition fall further and further, year after year, until now his trust in God and the land was at the stage where further disappointment might easily cause him to lose his mind and reason. He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.”
― Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road
tags: destitution, disappointment, failure, hope, poverty, trust-in-god
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“Taking away our homeless shame
and clothing us with a name, home”
― Loraine Masiya Mponela
tags: compassion, destitution, hero, homeless, hostile-environment, love, mental-health
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