Make Us Quotes

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Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set… — Eric G. Wilson
The only chance of satisfaction we can imagine is getting more of what we have now. But what we have now makes everybody dissatisfied. So… — Jeremy Seabrook
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. — J. Irwin Miller
AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and… — Nelson Mandela
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. — Ellen DeGeneres
I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware… — Elizabeth Catlett
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with… — Marianne Williamson
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible. — Walter Kirn
Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or… — Ann Druyan
No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass… — Rod McKuen
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. — Frank Pittman
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of. — Corita Kent
God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to… — Dave Hunt
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartâ€”the mutations that make us the sort of creature… — Elizabeth Kolbert
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can doâ€” Godâ€™s purpose is to make us… — Oswald Chambers
Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures. — David Richo
Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that… — Dale Carnegie

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