Paraphrased Quotes

• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Summarizing, Royal

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

  Mother Teresa

  Success, God, Mother

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

  Mother Teresa

  Strength, Leadership, Cheerleading

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• Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.

  Alistair Beaton

  Mean, Silence, Serious

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Hazards, May

  John Steinbeck (2013). “Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition”, p.80, Penguin

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• Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?

  Zhuangzi

  Funeral, Bird, Crow

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• Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Slavery, Form

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• Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)

  Nicholas Ling

  Ignorance

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• In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Men, Vivid

  "The Secret of Childhood" by Maria Montessori, (p. 106), 1936.

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• Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Knowledge, Degrees, Awareness

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

  Laozi

  Nature, Expectations, Four

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• Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Als, Way, Abstaining

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• A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

  Percival Everett

  Metaphor

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• Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping Others, Love Is, Hands

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Way, Never Trust

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• Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Lying

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