Giving Quotes - Page 34

• I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Religious, Philosophical

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.11, Modern Library

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• But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

  Zhuangzi

  Tree, Heaven, Over You

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• I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Struggle, Perfect

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• The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mirrors

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• What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Pain, What If

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• If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Beauty, Exercise, Mind

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1993). “Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865”, Yosemite Assn

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• You need to know your faith. You cannot give what you do not have.

  John Corapi

  Catholic, Needs, Knows

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• Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.

  Mother Teresa

  Baby, Children, Home

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• God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Inspiration, Catholic, Grace

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• The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Lying, Perfect, Heaven

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• Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Prayer, Silence, Catholic

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• To you who hear I say, love your enemies,do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you,pray for those who mistreat you.To the person who strikes you on one cheek,offer the other one as well,and from the person who takes your cloak,do not withhold even your tunic.Give to everyone who asks of you,and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.Do to others as you would have them do to you.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Hate, Love You, Catholic

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Romance, Parent

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• We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Fun, May

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• Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct.

  John J. Pershing

  Brother, Marine, Army

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• There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

  Pauley Perrette

  Artist, Years, Technological Change

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• You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Believe, Thinking, Laughing

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• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Long, Important

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• It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

  George Horne

  Business, Men, Advice

  George Horne, William Jones (1831). “The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Studies, and Writings”, p.33

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• In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Work, Past

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Serenity, Inner Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.440, Parallax Press

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• Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each organism according to its works; and if anything grows too weak or stupid to take care of itself, she gives it its due deserts by letting it die and disappear.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Nature, Stupid

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

  James Trefil

  Nature, Taken, Law

  James S. Trefil (2003). “The Nature of Science: An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Governing Our Universe”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Ocean

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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