"I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper."
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"I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me."
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"It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius."
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"If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground."
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"All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup."
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"It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do."
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"To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god ."
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"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."
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"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."
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"Faith is giving the divine a chance to act."
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"Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'"
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"Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . ."
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"The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get."
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"Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance."
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"What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution."
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"The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others."
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"Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us."
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"To whom much is given, much is required."
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"A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out."
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"A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness"
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