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2024 Receive quotes by 1325 unique authors
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They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not…
— Jerry Spinelli
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their…
— Alexandre Dumas
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God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take…
— Joe Hill
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The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty…
— C.S. Lewis
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It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am…
— Richard G. Scott
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It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you…
— Nicholas Sparks
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)…
— William Goldman
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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
— Aldous Huxley
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Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds…
— J R Ward
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O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i…
— Brother Lawrence
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing…
— John Maynard Keynes
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So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you going to tell me? "Yes.Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it?…
— Mitch Albom
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When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the…
— Julia Cameron
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted
— Carl Sandburg
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or…
— Jodi Picoult
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Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a…
— Frances Mayes
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I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication…
— Richard G. Scott
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Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who…
— Stephen Dobyns
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King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions. I know that…
— Garth Stein
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us…
— Richard J. Foster
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The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,…
— Thomas Merton
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