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Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. It's no coincidence that magic realism happens in Latin America, because for us dreams and aspirations are part of life.

You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you'll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.

YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can't stay rich if you are poor minded.

You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same.

You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

You may perform poorly, but your "poorly" may not be as "badly" as others may say it is. Your "poorly" is "excellent" provided you make amendments on it!

You may only be able to afford jeans with holes. You may only be able to afford boots with holes in their soles! But you can never ever give up the struggle for your dreams! Be proud of your struggle. Adversity brings out the best in us!

You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer". No! Something good can come out from you no matter who you are, what you have done and where you have been to!

Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader". Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.

Your random acts of kindness like helping a blind man cross the street, giving free tuition to poor children or cleaning your surroundings, never go waste as they get deposited in your happiness account. If you refuse to 160 | 31 Ways to Happiness Deposit in Your Happiness Account | 161 accept any remuneration for your good work, you enrich yourself spiritually by getting more joy in your life.

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.

Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself

You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Your gift is what you were created to be

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

Affluence creates poverty.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor.

A great artist is never poor.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?

All language is but a poor translation.