"Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give."
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"Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else."
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"Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting."
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"You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead."
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"...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
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"Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it."
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"Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!"
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"Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide"
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"And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it."
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"Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity."
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"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."
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"I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself."
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"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now."
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"Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible."
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"No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery."
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"Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?"
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"You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!"
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"The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite."
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"Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands."
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"Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have."
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