"It is a good thing to have had a taste of real poverty, for it is the only way to understand how lucky one is, to be grateful for the simplest things. When you have eaten nothing but stale bread and soup for days on end, a piece of buttered toast seems like a banquet. I had learned something that is not taught in schools— that there are things far more valuable than money: health, happiness, and the simple pleasure of a good meal."

George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London

Artist: Vincent van Gogh - The Potato Eaters

Pairing by Whispers from the Heart

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Every man should put himself through some level of poverty

It tells you who you are

"It is a good thing to have had a taste of real poverty, for it is the only way to understand how lucky one is, to be grateful for the simplest things. When you have eaten nothing but stale bread and soup for days on end, a piece of buttered toast seems like a banquet. I had learned something that is not taught in schools— that there are things far more valuable than money: health, happiness, and the simple pleasure of a good meal."

George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London

Artist: Vincent van Gogh - The Potato Eaters

Pairing by Whispers from the Heart

💯 All the trials make even the simplest tribulations sweet .