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984 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given."
"Sovereignty is not given, it is taken."
"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future."
"It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
"A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies."
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"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
"I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method."
"Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given."
"Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?"
"In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have."
"Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal."
"Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept."
"Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them."
"Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present."
"If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse."
"Grace is God-given power to live differently."
"Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given."
"I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them."
"I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are."
"The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever."
"All that is not given is lost."
"Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give."
"I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period."
"What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You."
"I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble."
