"After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor."
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"I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years."
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"Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously."
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"I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve."
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"No one has ever become poor from giving."
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"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
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"Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same."
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"A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster."
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"Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love."
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"Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray."
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"Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child."
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"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give."
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"Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much."
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"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."
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"The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world."
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"Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview."
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"All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it."
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"A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being."
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"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself."
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"People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist."
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