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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Pain, Person, Giving

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

Life, Good, Stood

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Good, Happy, Wife

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
David Ogden Stiers

Family, Left, Behind

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate, Him, Violence

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

Problem, Confusion, Perfection

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

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

Wrong, Progress, Road

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Power, Live

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Goal, Seek

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pure, Seek, Ends

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Confusion, Opinion

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Cannot, Within, Voice

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Confusion, Perfection

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Denis Waitley

Courage, Working, Problems

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley

Friendship, Great, True

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership, Time, Today

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Richard Dawkins

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Success, Home

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

Heart, Suffering, Survival

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Faith, Hope

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength, Hurt, Character

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Rock

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde

Democracy, Simply

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, May, Two

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, God, Truth

For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare

Money, Vile, Raise

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Change, Nothing, Mean

There's place and means for every man alive.
William Shakespeare

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Bad, Fiction

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