"It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination."
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"A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order."
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"Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better."
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"Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves."
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"The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time."
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"Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself."
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"The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it."
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"Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously."
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"I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive."
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"Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given."
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"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less."
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"Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind."
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"My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours."
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"It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more."
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"The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master."
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"I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me."
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"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."
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"I awaken today, appreciating everything in sight, and I give thanks."
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"First and foremost, I just want to give a huge thanks to the fans who have been behind me."
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"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
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