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• To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Forgiveness, Blessed, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.374, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

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• No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Appreciation, Art, Poet

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Teacher, Art

  "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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• It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Achievement, Easy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Understanding

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

  Stendhal

  Love, Pay, Easy

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal, Fragments, sec. 46, 1822.

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• The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Wind, Voice

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• Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

  Mason Cooley

  Satisfied

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• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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• Greed is permanent slavery

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Greed

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• Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

  Philip Pullman

  Love, Travel, Knowing

  "Northern Lights". Book by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. 1995.

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• What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

  Teofilo Stevenson

  Love, Money, Patriotic

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• If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

  Maria Bamford

  Inspirational, Family, Distance

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• The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

  Yakubu Gowon

  Children, Usa, United States

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• The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

  David Alfaro Siqueiros

  Mean, Artist, People

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• I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.

  B. J. Habibie

  Money, Airplane, Thinking

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• Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

  Andrew Young

  Political, Saving, Use

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• When people start comparing him with (Michael) Jordan then that's not a fair comparison. Jordan was a far more superior player in a very tough league, he was very creative. That's not taking away anything from LeBron because he is a great player, but it is not a fair comparison because Jordan is a far superior player.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Player, People, League

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Voice, Nephew

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Inspirational, Education, Attitude

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

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• Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Mind, Tuition

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