"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not m...

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
~ Mother Teresa ~












Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
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