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"There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me."
"The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives."
"The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources."
"It's not what you give, it's the way you give it."
"The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."
"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster."
"The secret to living is giving."
"This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy."
"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
"To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love."
"Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent."
"Give out what you most want to come back."
"Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call."
"Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself."
"Whoever gives reverence receives reverence."
"People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good."
"My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish."
"Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept a single one of his conditions. Let me tell you. Arafat went to Oslo and signed [the agreement]. What did Israel do? They confined him in Muqata in one room and killed him."
