"It takes great generosity to accept generosity." — Merle Shain
"It takes great generosity to accept generosity."
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23 Quotes by Merle Shain
Merle Shain has 23 quotes on this site.
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Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
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Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.
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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to…
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Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else…
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There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must…
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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.
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The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather…
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Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you…
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Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
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Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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