"Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses."
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"In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude."
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."
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"The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit."
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"Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts."
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"Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me."
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"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work."
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"The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear."
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"Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man."
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"And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act."
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"Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it."
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"I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience."
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"The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides."
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"He alone fails who gives up and lies down."
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"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."
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"Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things."
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"That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving."
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"I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem."
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"The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit."
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"The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance."
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