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• You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends.

  Katy Perry

  Prayer, Good Friend, Tissues

  "The Odd Way Katy Perry Dealt With Divorce". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2013.

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• The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Tree, Income

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• You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.

  Rick Warren

  Heart, Rights, Self

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• Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them. --Cressida

  Stuart Hill

  Liars, Self, Perfect

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

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• Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Prayer, Eye

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• Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

  Libba Bray

  School, Skills, Feet

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fog, Self, Skills

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.67, Penguin

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• people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

  Rumi

  Pain, People, Want

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• Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

  Tony Dungy

  Jesus, Son, Men

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.44, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

  Marian Keyes

  Nice, Princess, Eye

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• Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Attitude, Mean, Humility

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• One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'

  Takeda Nobushige

  War, Haste, Way

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• Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Healing, Mean

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• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Garden, Self

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, People, Fellow Man

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• My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings still seem to originate inside its cold walls. My muted sadness, my vague longing, my rare flickers of joy. They pool in the center of my chest and seep out of there, diluted and faint, but real.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Lying, Real

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• Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

  Richard J. Foster

  Mean, Pride, Discipline

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• From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

  Rumi

  Running, Hurt, Fire

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Shadow And Light Source Both”

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• If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.

  Jan Carlzon

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Jobs

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• I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, People, Personality

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• There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Time, Aging, Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

  Emily Bronte

  Time, Lasts, Cold

  Emily Brontë, “Remembrance”

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• Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

  Edwin Muir

  Patience, Time, Kindness

  1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.

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• O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Kings, Space

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.453, GENERAL PRESS

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• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Real

  "Are You the One for Me? Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong". Book by Barbara De Angelis, 1992.

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