Beloved Quotes

• Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

  Toni Morrison

  Definitions, Defined

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Inspiring, Memories

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.33, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

  Khalil Gibran

  I Love You, Dream, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

  Francis of Assisi

  Self, Giving, Catholic

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• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Men, Self

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Sweet, Doe

  Soren Kierkegaard (2017). “Philosophical Fragments”, p.20, Jovian Press

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• Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

  Antal Szerb

  Age, Birth, Moments

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• Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.

  Mason Cooley

  Cat, Stories, May

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• White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Blessed, Men, Race

  "White Self-Hate: Master-Stroke Of The Enemy". Book by George Lincoln Rockwell, archive.org. 1967.

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• July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

  Diego Rivera

  Lost Love, Happy Friday, Artist

  Deborah Kent, Diego Rivera (2005). “Diego Rivera: Painting Mexico”, Childs World Incorporated

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• It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

  Paul Begala

  Song, America, Republican

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• We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Hero, Opportunity, Men

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• For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

  Mary Astell

  Thinking, Pleasure, Higher

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• For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

  Marie de France

  Love Is, Lovers, Should

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Oil

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• You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

  Mark Russell

  Baseball, Football, Games

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• Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

  Toni Morrison

  Clever, Definitions, Beats

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

  Margaret Fuller

  Vanity, Recognition, Popularity

  Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1869). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Woman”, p.349

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• Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

  Toni Morrison

  Freedom, Self, Ownership

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 29, 2011

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• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

  L. Neil Smith

  Party, Libertarian, Comrade

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• Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

  John Jay Hooker

  Democracy, Trying, Cost

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• Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Next, Littles

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2014

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• If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

  John James Audubon

  Names, America, Three

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• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Leader, President, Sovereign

  "Intervista con la storia (Interview with History)". Book by Oriana Fallaci (Preface), 1976.

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• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Confusion, Democracy, Quiet

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