"There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish."
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"I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up."
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"One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up."
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"They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of."
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"When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war."
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"Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion."
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"The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be"
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"Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration."
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"What are you waiting for in order to give up?"
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"He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
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"You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results."
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"In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result."
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"We live in a time when people give up too easy."
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"Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love."
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"I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility."
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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."
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"Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece."
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"Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet."
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"I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution."
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"Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines."
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