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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 that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White

Life, Find, Try

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim Elliot

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

Freedom, Yourself, Someone

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature, Strong, Character

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Audrey Hepburn

Beauty, True, Woman

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Life, Music, Mind

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

Able, Value, Seen

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, God, Nation

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Religion, Power, Knowledge

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein

Great, Pleasure, Indeed

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

Love, Measure, Intense

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Yourself, Catch

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

Father, Laugh, Son

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln

Publicity, Skunk

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

Cool, Nothing, Person

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan

Peace, Wife, Loyalty

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

Death, Makes, Angels

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

Life, Anger, Hurt

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

God, Light, Darkness

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Justice, Law

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Greatest, Sense, Wanted

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. Lewis

Love, Power, Through

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb

God, Hope, Spiritual

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust, Future, Past

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot

Fool, Cannot, Keep

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Power, Knowledge, Ignorance

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard

Jealousy, Negative, Judgment

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

Good, Others, Himself

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu

Wise, Others, Treasures

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