"10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise."
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"Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best."
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"Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best."
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"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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"It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities."
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"Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose."
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"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
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"People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you."
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"All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love."
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"Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try."
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"We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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"Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again"
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"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
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"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world."
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"Give everything and look for no return."
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"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."
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"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
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"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."
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"Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive."
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