Deserving Quotes

• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Deserving It, Matter

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• You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 27, 2011

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• When you're a good person, good things happen to you. You shouldn't be a good person with the expectation of therefore deserving good things, but in its purest form, I believe when you do good, good comes back to you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Believe, Expectations, Good Person

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect

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• It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Receiving, Deserve

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

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• I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Louise Hay, Heather Dane (2016). “The Bone Broth Secret: A Culinary Adventure in Health, Beauty, and Longevity”, p.63, Hay House, Inc

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• We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Attitude, Helping Others

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 29, 2017

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• Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Romantic, Cute Boyfriend

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• Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Joy, Soul

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• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life

  Paulo Coelho

  Good Things, Feels, Happens

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• Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Feel Good

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Deserving It, People

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Life Is Like, Consequence

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• We accept the love we think we deserve.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

  Ivan Panin

  Deserving It, Praise, Deserve

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• Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Acceptance

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2016). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Dear God, please help me to love and value myself, and treat myself with loving care. Please help me to know that I deserve happiness (as we all do), and that I have the right to change my life in healthful ways. Thank you for supporting me as I stand in my power, strength, and love in my relationships and in my career, and for helping others to accept and support the changes that I need to make.

  Doreen Virtue

  Helping Others, Careers, Support

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 27, 2011

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• All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Encouragement, Pain, Believe

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

  George Washington

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.374

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• A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

  Savitri Devi

  Life, Pain, War

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• Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

  Thomas Hardy

  Real, People, Honor

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• You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, Tree, May

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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