“The idea is to move people from shelters that they are in now to some kind of temporary housing until we can work out some kind of long-term housing solutions.

You know… the word “homeless”, gives you this very negative image. A filthy raggedy hobo… it’s no good. It’s too demeaning of a word if you ask me. It’s just not politically correct enough… If...

It was as though God’s hand was reaching down to Anna, and she was reaching her hands to Harvey and Joe, creating a circle of love.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

In its timeless capacity to embody the human condition, the vampire is a poignant metaphor describing the psychosocial experience of the pariah – the outsider. The vampire is the Other that used to be human....

When people say there is no place like home, the first to agree are the homeless.

Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drift, the drift, the silent drift of blinding snow. I saw the high hotel windows, the lights, the...

Love, like hefty leftover stew, could be eaten with a spoon—or with some homeless guy I just met. I would offer you some, but we haven’t met yet. And whose fault is that? Oh yeah—yours.

somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

Long has been this road called life. Every time you venture out in this road, remember. Home is within. Home is in you.

A brand is built action by action, just as houses are built brick by brick. Is the identity of your personal brand homeless?

If all the Christians- I mean all of ’em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we’d shut the city down.We’d shut down hunger.We’d shut down loneliness.We’d shut down the notion that...

I am three forks away from eating all your food with two homeless guys. It’s too bad I only have a suitcase full of spoons and a bucket of soy sauce.

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever...

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

I just got circumcised, and to help the homeless, I’m going to make a tent out of my foreskin. But right now I’m offering free coffee if you haven’t got a place to sleep.

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

I can’t get car parts at Lowes, the home improvement store? If I lived in my car, my car would be my home.

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me

How to arrive unexpectedly and invisibly: show up looking poor, but not homeless.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

The mission sat in a converted store front on the corner of a medium-busy street. There was a small crowd gathered in front – no real surprise, since they gave out food and clothing, all...

History has shown us time and time again that you don’t have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

It’s irresponsible to think things are just going to work out because you believe things happen for a reason. I refuse to accept these things. I refuse to give in to that absurdity. You saw...

When your mind is quiet and you listen closely, you will hear the children weeping silently. If you can’t quite hear their cries, then listen with your eyes. These are the children of the streets,...

I want to possess enough courage to fill a Campbell’s soup can. And then I want to use my courage to feed the homeless. Isn’t courage not only filling, but delicious?

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she delivered the sandwiches for her own sanity. Something would crumble inside of her...

Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same child that he is now homeless, he will abandon all foundations. Tell the child he has...

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand...

I’m homeless, and I’m an alcoholic. But I have a dream.”What’s that?”I wanna go fishing.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

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”)

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they’re on the wrong side.

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

If Stuart is a freak… it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able...

Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would cry at the smallest of things- a little boy walking home by himself,...

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.

His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and its own particular movements which he tried hard to follow. He...

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is.

Life goal: Swim in a lake full of soup, and instead of bathing suits we’ll wear Ziploc bags while we make love like we’re feeding the homeless.

As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: ‘The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New...

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no...

What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder...