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It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
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Germany Kent
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If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
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Amit Kalantri
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Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.
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Amit Kalantri
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Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.
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Amit Kalantri
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Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.
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Amit Kalantri
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I chase goals, not girls.
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Amit Kalantri
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A book can give you an experience of someoneβs life in a few hours, and this is far more profitable than any sale thatβs going on.
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Neeraj Agnihotri (In The Name Of Blasphemy)
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The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.
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Thomas Fuller
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The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.
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Amit Kalantri
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You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.
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Amit Kalantri
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Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.
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Amit Kalantri
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In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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I don't beg for those things which can be earned.
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Amit Kalantri
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I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
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Oliver Markus Malloy (Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles (How The Great American Opioid Epidemic of The 21st Century Began, #3))
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Max's scarred brow crinkled. He reached for the coffee mug on his desk. βMotive is tricky. See, what might be a good reason for me to kill someone might not be a good enough reason for you to kill someone."
Swift stared at his hands loosely clasped around his ankle. βI wouldn't. Deliberately hurt anyone."
"And my impulse is to hurt anyone who hurts you.β When Swift's gaze lifted to his, Max said, βSee how that works?"
He did, and while it wasn't intended as a compliment, it did warm his heart in a funny way. He managed to joke, βWhy, I think that's the most romantic thing anyone's ever said to me.
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Josh Lanyon (Come Unto These Yellow Sands)
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Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldnβt normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldnβt normally do.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Well, I'm glad you're so amused," I said, running my fingers across the railing.
Maxon hopped up to sit on the railing, looking very relaxed. "You're always amusing. Get used to it."
Hmm. He was almost being funny.
"So...about what you said...," he started tentatively.
"Which part? The part about me calling you names or fighting with my mom or saying food was my motivation?" I rolled my eyes.
He laughed once. "The part about me being good..."
"Oh. What about it?" Those few sentences suddenly seemed more embarrassing than anything else I'd said. I ducked my head down and twisted a piece of my dress.
"I appreciate you making things look authentic, but you didn't need to go that far."
My head snapped up. How could he think that?
"Maxon, that wasn't for the sake of the show. If you had asked me a month ago what my honest opinion of you was, it would have been very different. But now I know you, and I know the truth, and you are everything I said you were. And more."
He was quiet, but there was a small smile on his face.
"Thank you," he finally said.
"Anytime."
Maxon cleared his throat. "He'll be lucky, too." He got down from his makeshift seat and walked to my side of the balcony.
"Huh?"
"Your boyfriend. When he comes to his senses and begs you to take him back," Maxon said matter-of-factly.
I had to laugh. No such thing would happen in y world.
"he's not my boyfriend anymore. And he made it pretty clear he was gone with me." Even I could hear the tiny bit of hope in my voice.
"Not possible. He'll have seen you on TV by now and fallen for you all over again. Though, in my opinion, you're still much too good for the dog." Maxon spoke almost as if he was bored, like he'd seen this happen a million times.
"Speaking of which!" he said a bit louder. "If you don't want me to be in love with you, you're going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I'm having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you."
I hit his arm. "Shut up, Maxon."
"I'm not kidding. You're too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we'll have to send some of the guards with you. You'll never survive on your own, poor thing." He said all this with mock pity.
"I can't help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection." I fanned my face as if being so pretty was exhausting.
"No, I don't suppose you can help it.
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Kiera Cass (The Selection (The Selection, #1))
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I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.
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Amit Kalantri
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Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put
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Lena Dunham (Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned")
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There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.
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Amit Kalantri
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Never give up hope! If you do, you be dead already.
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Rose in The Inspired Caregiver
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The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.
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COMPTON GAGE
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Food for thought: Every dead body on Mount Everest was once a highly motivated person. Stay lazy my friends. It may save your life one day.
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Oliver Markus Malloy (How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book)
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I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.
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Amit Kalantri
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You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.
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Amit Kalantri
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No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.
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Amit Kalantri
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You've never heard of bagpipes?" Cody asked, sounding aghast. "They're as Scottish as kilts and red armpit hair!"
"Um . . . yuck?" I said.
"That's it." Cody said. "Steelheart has to fall so we can get back to educating children properly. This is an offense against the dignity of my motherland."
"Great," Prof said. "I'm glad we now have proper motivation.
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Brandon Sanderson (Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1))
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To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?
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M. Prefontaine (The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else (Quotes For Every Occasion 1))
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Love is as we will it to be." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
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Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Be careful because God's gifts alone are not able to give you joy; God's gift can only bring you joy when they are joined with your gratitude.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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All the failures in my life freed me from all my fears so that I can succeed.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.
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If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.
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Amit Kalantri
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -W.M. Lewis (1878 β 1945)
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M. Prefontaine (The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else (Quotes For Every Occasion 1))
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To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.
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Sometimes what not to do is more important than what to do. Sometimes when you are in crisis, when frustration are high or when you are under pressure, what you don't do is more important than what you do. Don't be afraid. ....
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. -Anon
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. -Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 β 1962)
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M. Prefontaine (The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else (Quotes For Every Occasion 1))
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Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.
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Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better.
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You are only Half Happy unless you love them both equally: Friday & Monday!
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The harder you search the more troubled you become.
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No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.
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COMPTON GAGE
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Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".
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Amit Kalantri
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The night before a day off is more satisfying than the actual day off.
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Pratik Thakker
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If you ask me I think the greatest breakthrough each and everyone of us need is not on finance, marriage, work, relationship, own house, car but self. The first breakthrough should start from being selfish.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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Gratitude without practicing maybe like practicing a faith without good work. A grateful heart is not enough without a grateful habit; because your joy is not produced by what you put in your heart but by habit you put in your life.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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I stare past her at the inspirational kitten posters. There's one of a soaking-wet kitten climbing out of a toilet with the caption "it could be worse!"
"Just tell me whatever it is you're thinking," Mrs. Paulsen says. "Whatever is going through your mind right now."
"I hope they didn't actually drop a cat in the toilet to get that picture," I choke out.
"...Pardon?"
"Nothing. Sorry.
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Robin Stevenson (The World Without Us)
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -Tallulah Bankhead (1903-68) How much of human life is lost in waiting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) Only a life lived for others is worth living. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.
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Mark W. Boyer
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In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. -Oscar Wilde (1854 β 1900)
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M. Prefontaine (The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else (Quotes For Every Occasion 1))
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Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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M. Prefontaine (The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else (Quotes For Every Occasion 1))
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. -David Russell (1942- ) Life is all about timing...
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Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
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Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?
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Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
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As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?
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They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen.
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There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Linda Grayson One
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Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
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COMPTON GAGE
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The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.
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Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen.
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From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.
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An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.
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If you can't see the assets in you, it will be hard for you to export it to the world. Recognise who you are and the world will recognise you.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.
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All my pains has always increased my sense of purpose.
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Whenever you are in transition it is always important to choose the words that you use. You call it crises in your life and I call it transition.
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Be careful the mistake of yesterday always lives with tomorrow.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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God is not interested in helping you finding out why you are in a mess, He is interested in fixing it.
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What you see and what you listen to will determine how high you will go.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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The forgiveness of God flows through me and because I am forgiven, I can forgive.
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Patience Johnson
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Freedom comes from focus, focus brings freedom. Focus on fear you will always be in prison, focus on faith and is nothing the world can keep you knocked down.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
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Weigh thou therefore their wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found anymore.
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Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.
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I know it sounds abysmalβ¦β he chuckled at the mere thought of it, βbut I just want to be happy and contentβ
βDo you not dream big? Do you not want to travel?β
Kalki rounded his arms around his little brother. βPerhaps I chose not to. Perhaps big doesnβt always matter. Itβs also the little things, specks of happiness that we go through in a day that we should look out for. Itβs funny how grief makes you realize the good things you have overlooked in life
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There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning, the only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. "Fear or revere me, but please think I'm special." We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The "hip, hip, hoo-fucking-rah." Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Cos we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.
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If negative emotions have gain access into your heart, it is because you have given it attention. If memories of pain and hurt dominates your heart, it is because you gave them attention. How can a memory hurt you when it has only happened? It can only hurt you when you give it attention.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do β¦ and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: For like as a woman that travails make haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
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The greatest futility! says the congregator, "The greatest futility! Everything is futile!" What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.
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The really destructive feature of their relationship is its inherent quality of boredom. It is quite natural for Peter often to feel bored with Otto - they have scarecely a single interest in common - but Peter, for sentimental reasons, will never admit that this is so. When Otto, who has no such motives for pretending, says, "It's so dull here!" I invariably see Peter wince and looked pained. Yet Otto is actually far less often bored than Peter himself; he finds Peter's company genuinely amusing, and is quite glad to be with him most of the day. Often, when Otto has been chattering rubbish for an hour without stopping, I can see that Peter really longs for him to be quiet and go away. But to admit this would be, in Peter's eyes, a total defeat, so he only laughs and rubs his hands, tacitly appealing to me to support him in his pretense of finding Otto inexhaustibly delightful and funny.
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The open door is never behind you; the open door is always before you. Quit looking at your past life and mistakes. Look unto Jesus who is the Author and Perfector of our faith. Your open door is not in the opportunity you missed ten years ago, it is not in some stuffs behind you that you can't get back. You can't gain your access by giving attention to your past life.
Your past days are behind you and what God has for you is in front of you. Just pay attention.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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You can't love me if you don't love you, you can't think of nothing to do with me if you can't think of nothing to do with yourself, stop feeling sorry for yourself and tidy up, clean up the apartment until you get a house, do that job until you build your own company. Look at what you have and think on how to make it better.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. If conservatives get to call universal health care "socialized medicine," I get to call private, for-profit health care "soulless vampire bastards making money off human pain." Now, I know what you're thinking: "But, Bill, the profit motive is what sustains capitalism." Yes, and our sex drive is what sustains the human species, but we don't try to fuck everything.
It wasn't that long ago when a kid in America broke his leg, his parents took him to the local Catholic hospital, the nun stuck a thermometer in his ass, the doctor slapped some plaster on his ankle, and you were done. The bill was $1.50; plus, you got to keep the thermometer.
But like everything else that's good and noble in life, some bean counter decided that hospitals could be big business, so now they're not hospitals anymore; they're Jiffy Lubes with bedpans. The more people who get sick, and stay sick, the higher their profit margins, which is why they're always pushing the Jell-O.
Did you know that the United States is ranked fiftieth in the world in life expectancy? And the forty-nine loser countries were they live longer than us? Oh, it's hardly worth it, they may live longer, but they live shackled to the tyranny of nonprofit health care. Here in America, you're not coughing up blood, little Bobby, you're coughing up freedom. The problem with President Obama's health-care plan isn't socialism. It's capitalism. When did the profit motive become the only reason to do anything? When did that become the new patriotism? Ask not what you could do for your country, ask what's in it for Blue Cross Blue Shield.
And it's not just medicine--prisons also used to be a nonprofit business, and for good reason--who the hell wants to own a prison? By definition, you're going to have trouble with the tenants. It's not a coincidence that we outsourced running prisons to private corporations and then the number of prisoners in America skyrocketed.
There used to be some things we just didn't do for money. Did you know, for example, there was a time when being called a "war profiteer" was a bad thing? FDR said he didn't want World War II to create one millionaire, but I'm guessing Iraq has made more than a few executives at Halliburton into millionaires. Halliburton sold soldiers soda for $7.50 a can. They were honoring 9/11 by charging like 7-Eleven. Which is wrong. We're Americans; we don't fight wars for money. We fight them for oil.
And my final example of the profit motive screwing something up that used to be good when it was nonprofit: TV news. I heard all the news anchors this week talk about how much better the news coverage was back in Cronkite's day. And I thought, "Gee, if only you were in a position to do something about it.
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Bill Maher (The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass)
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Maybe what you need in your life is not the next level of accomplishment or the next level of accumulation but the next level of appreciation for what you have; that will set the stage to make a space for what you will accumulate in the future. ( a bit deep) Simply put thank God for now before setting the goal for tomorrow because if you grow in gifts and didn't grow in gratitude, you have gained nothing.
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Have you ever been too old, too young, too big, too small, too smart, too dumb?
Have you ever been too fat, too thin, too shy, too loud, too slow to win?
Have you ever been too scared to try, too small to play, too young to die?
Have you ever been too weak to fight, too little yet, or not quite right?
Have you ever been too dark, too light, too black, too brown, too red, too white?
Have you ever been put off βtil last, the odd man out, the jerk they sassed?
Have you ever been the one black sheep, the naughty child, the nerdy geek?
Have you ever been the butt of jokes, the timid soul, the oddest folk?
Have you ever been left out of fun, forgotten when the day is done?
Have you ever been afraid to lose? Afraid to try? Afraid to choose?
Have you ever been too rich, too poor, too venturesome, or just a bore?
Have you ever had no clue at all? Nowhere to go? No one to call?
Have you ever been without a friend? Have you ever wished the day would end?
Have you ever had the biggest nose, the longest arms, the funny toes?
Have you ever had the flattest chest? Have you ever had the biggest breasts?
Have you ever prayed your luck would change? Have you ever felt your life was strange?
Have you ever wished for something more, or something less than what you were?
If you have ever felt this way, you're one of us Iβm here to say.
We've all been there a time or two because we're human, me and you.
We've all felt different in some way because we are, and thatβs okay.
We've all been hurt; we've all been scarred. That's life. And frankly, life is hard.
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