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• Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Daughter, Blessing, Divinity

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• One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

  Molly Haskell

  Love Is, Order, Chaos

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Spirit, Divine

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• Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Details, Maps

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• The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited , is no longer questioned.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

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• The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

  Francis Beaumont

  Heaven, Headstone, Mercy

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

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• Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

  James E. Faust

  Father, Giving, Heaven

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• Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

  Ann Patchett

  Inspiration, Writing, Magic

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.28, A&C Black

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• The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

  Peter Cundill

  Important, Majority, Investing

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• Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.

  Al-Ghazali

  Dog, Men, Pigs

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• It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Success In Life, This I Believe

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• Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Soul, Humanity

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• Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

  Arthur Eddington

  Truth, Responsibility, May

  Sir Arthur Eddington (2013). “New Pathways In Science”, p.236, Read Books Ltd

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• In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Deity... female deities were gradually overshadowed by or incorporated into the attributes of a number of male gods, then eclipsed by the ascendance of the single male deity that dominates the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  Judy Chicago

  Christian, Numbers, Principles

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• Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

  William Feather

  Two, Enthusiasm, Individual

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• The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

  Colin Powell

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others. (31)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Country, Spiritual, Compassion

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

  Chinua Achebe

  Heart, Reality, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jan 01, 2015

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• Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Mistake, Believe

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• Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

  David Bosch

  Church, Missions, Activity

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• There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

  Swami Paramananda

  Certain, Magnitude, Universal

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• Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Weakness, Charity

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• A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Strong, Self

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• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  William Segal

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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