We’ve collected the best Us Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Henri Frederic Amiel, William Morris, Albert Camus, W. H. Auden, Francis of Assisi. Use them as an inspiration.
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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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The cars we drive say a lot about us.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
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Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
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Discrimination is not done by villains. It’s done by us.
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Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
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Personal songs take a little more to record, definitely. We had to bring our souls into the recording studio. It was us being very vulnerable. We heard that our fans can kind of feel that.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.
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I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
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We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
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Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
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My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
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Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
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If we are not free, no one will respect us.
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Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also a principle of humility; none of us can act alone.
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The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.
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AI is neither good nor evil. It’s a tool. It’s a technology for us to use.
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
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Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Don’t get caught up in the ‘look’ thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that’s not always a good thing because what’s good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
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Looking at the world through a sustainability lens not only helps us ‘future proof’ our supply chain, it also fuels innovation and drives brand growth.
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You have the right to kill me, but you don’t have the right to judge me. That’s life. There’s nobility in that. There’s focus. It’s genuine. It’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
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Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.
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The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies – all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
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We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country’s unity.
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
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I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don’t see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
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Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
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There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.
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From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
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We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
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We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
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Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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I don’t know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It’s up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.
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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
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It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn’t going to work.
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
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We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
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Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning… Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
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I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society.
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God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
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It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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People see police officers and think they’re such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.
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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
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Persuasion is achieved by the speaker‘s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
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The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
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We’re so complex; we’re mysteries to ourselves; we’re difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we’re all the same.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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We must dare to think ‘unthinkable‘ thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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As humans, we’re going to make mistakes. It’s what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
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If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
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Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
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Only a god can save us.
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The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
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We teach people how to treat us.
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy‘s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
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Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
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There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
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The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
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We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
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Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
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Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
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None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he’s not a villain. He’s a dude, just a guy.
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Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
404
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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In a competition, there’s always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all.
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
410
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
411
Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
425
Often the most unexpected, unpredictable moments in life are the ones that leave the biggest impression and that teach us to roll with the punches.
426
I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.
427
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.
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Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
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Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
437
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
438
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
441
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
446
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
447
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
448
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
449
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
450
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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Many of us are more capable than some of us… but none of us is as capable as all of us!
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Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It’s recognizing that the same humanity – the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security – exists in each of us, even if it’s expressed uniquely.
455
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
456
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us ‘bad’ people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
457
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
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None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
460
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.
461
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
462
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
463
We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well.
464
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
467
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
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We are the movies and the movies are us.
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You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
487
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
490
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.
497
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
498
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
499
The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
500
The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.
501
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
502
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That’s not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It’s anything but that.
503
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
504
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
507
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant‘s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
508
Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can’t stop.
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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
515
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.
518
The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
519
No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.
520
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
521
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
522
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
523
Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
524
One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don’t. I don’t know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you’ll lose us.
525
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
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527
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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We are men of action, lies do not become us.
533
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
534
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
537
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
538
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
542
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
543
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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There is no ‘them’ and ‘us.’ There is only us.
546
I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people… change makes us grow.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
551
552
There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.
553
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
554
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
555
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
556
Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
561
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
562
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.
563
In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.
564
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
565
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
566
Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour or where they’re born. Ways of identifying blackness are no longer black or white. It’s not a case of us or them, you can now be us and them; like them but different.
567
568
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
569
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
570
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
