IM JOINING A GREAT CAUSE TODAY which unite bloggers to contribute on a pressing issue that every nation is battling to solve. For decades, hunger is haunting everyone especially those people in developing countries where poverty is prevalent. Fortunately, Im one of the lucky individuals that have access to the basic needs: food, shelter, clothing, education and health, but some are not. My only contribution for this cause is to share this video clip that will remind us that everyone, one way or another, could share in solving this global problem, maybe driven by any unpredictable circumstances.
On the other hand, I also collected some quotations from prominent individuals, writers/poets and politicians (courtesy of poemhunter.com) that shared their views about hunger, hope and poverty.
There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
[Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish author. Teresa Panza (Sancho's wife), in Don Quixote, pt. 2, ch. 5 (1615), trans. by P. Motteux. This well-worn proverb was attributed to Socrates by Cicero in De Finibus, bk. 2, sct. 90.]
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
[Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971).]
Poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished—
[Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), British parodist, librettist. Utopia Unlimited. . . Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. (1980) Oxford UniversityPress.]
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
[Mother Teresa (b. 1910), Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary in India. "Imitation of Christ," A Gift for God (1975).]
About Me
- Reymos
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, Manila, Philippines, United Kingdom
- Very simple person with a simple plan in life. A registered Philippine civil engineer, an urban/environmental planner, a lecturer/tutor; plays badminton, loves to swim, sing and dance; has the passion in drawing, writing reviews/poems and reading, and a photo enthusiast.
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Nice Job done!
Keep it up...
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