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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Strength, Courage, Someone

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

Best, Happy, Strong

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Life, Happiness, Single

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Time, Thankful

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Life, Strong, Young

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Nothing, Person, Poverty

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln

Power, Hope, Government

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

Powerful, Tell, Lady

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Time, Women, Men

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Greatest, Sometimes, Poverty

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Lonely, Struggle

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Happy, Woman, Human

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

Politics, End, Governed

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness, Feeling, Poverty

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings

Best, Yourself, Fight

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon

Society, Put, Away

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
Joel Osteen

God, Blessed, Focus

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Life, Love, Great

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Matter

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Fool, Try, Again

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

Love, Someone, Rich

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom, Human, Person

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Courage, Death, Scared

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald

Loved, Greater, Compliment

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Education, Between, Able

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa

Today, Feeling, Rather

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Making, Results

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson

Respect, Human, Ask

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, True

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