"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."

Angelis, Barbara De on spirituality
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America."

Carter, Jimmy on human rights
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"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."

Jung, Carl on wickedness   

"Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times."

Feather, William on age and aging
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on evolution
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"Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues."

Ezra, Iba on hatred
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"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

Seneca on goals
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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."

Seneca on conflict
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Seneca on courage
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"A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily."

Chase, Alexander on familiarity
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"My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away"

Wilde, Kim on love
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"We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past."

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame on present
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"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."

Clark, Frank A. on parents and parenting
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"If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride."

Horton, Doug on wish and wishing
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on trials
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"I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated."

Stern, Howard on motivation
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"If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."

Collier, Robert on wealth
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"Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on patience   

"Begin to weave and God will give the thread."

Proverb, German on procrastination
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"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."

Froude, James A. on strength   

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."

Vivekananda, Swami on thoughts and thinking
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"I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all."

Lincoln, Abraham on tears
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that."

Bailey, Pearl on fraud
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"Old wine and friends improve with age."

Proverb, Italian on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?"

Tomlin, Lily on prayer
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"Pray to God but continue to row to the shore."

Proverb, Russian on prayer
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"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."

Syrus, Publilius on leadership
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God."

Zinsser, William on words   

"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."

Lao-Tzu on words
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"One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."

Howard, Sidney on sacrifice
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"You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself."

Markham, Beryl on knowledge
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"You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them."

Forsyth, Peter T. on problems   

"The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship."

Armesto, Raul on choice
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."

Madonna on poverty and the poor
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"He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."

Bingham, John on running
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