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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  John L. Lewis

  Future, Organization, Voice

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Sadness, Thinking, Ethics

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• At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

  Mother Teresa

  Done, Diploma, Naked

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Christian, Hurt

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.45, New World Library

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Philosophical, Flower

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Shoes, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

  Mother Teresa

  Strength, Leadership, Cheerleading

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• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Hippie, Flirting, Reality

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

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• A life not lived for others is not a life.

  Mother Teresa

  Calcutta, Heal The World

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• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  Carl Jung

  Health, Men, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

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• Peace begins with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.13, New World Library

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