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• The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.

  Gangaji

  Heart, Jewels, Secret

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• It seems that simply being willing to express our views clearly, persuasively and without malice, can be a powerful invitation to others who may be lurking out there, in agreement with us but unsure whether their position is speakable or practical.

  Mary C. Gentile

  Powerful, Malice, Lurking

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• It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Real, Men, Reason Why

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.183, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Real, Believe, Risk

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.162, Crown Business

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• The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Giving, Dinner

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• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Uplifting, Nature, Stars

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.78

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• In the most difficult circumstances of life, there is often only one source of peace. The Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, extends His grace with the invitation, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28).

  Donald L. Hallstrom

  Jesus, Giving, Grace

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• I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

  Danny Wallace

  Suggestions, Favors, Request

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• Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Boys, Cfs, Catholic

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• Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

  Donald Antrim

  Loss, Choices, Trials

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

  Bob Goff

  White, People, House

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. Thats just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth.

  Mooji

  Rivers, Ego, Flow

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• Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.

  Mooji

  Fire, Discovery, Self

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• Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.

  Iain Pears

  Dream, Powerful, Plato

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.18, Penguin

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• Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

  Peter Block

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• You invite judgment into your life every time you judge others. To avoid this invitation to negativity, it's best to stop focusing on others' darkness. Instead, pay attention to their strengths. Today, be a horse with blinders. Look at only the good. As you develop this power, you will attract positive forces into your life.

  Yehuda Berg

  Forgiveness, Horse, Judging

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• I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!

  Pink

  Animal, Publicity, Bash

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• Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

  David Platt

  Teacher, Religious, Jesus

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.38, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.

  Bill Shankly

  Clubs, Has Beens, Everton

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• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  Karl Abraham

  Children, Opposites, Yield

  Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

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• Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy girl whose physical adornments, to her thinking, don't invite adequate attention. Heaven help the girl who gets the kind of attention she is seeking by being overpainted and underdressed! She will rue the day, of course, when she gets the kind of attention her flagrant invitation is giving.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gentleman, Sitting, Pieces

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• Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

  James Salter

  Events, Needs, Dissolution

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• You do not require an invitation to make profits.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Profit

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• Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, Jesus, Doe

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.29, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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