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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give."

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Alexander McQueen Fashion Designer
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"It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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Betty Buckley Actress and Singer
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"Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?"

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Saint Sebastian Martyr, Saint
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"The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God."

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him."

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Plato Philosopher
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"Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her."

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Ernest Holmes Writer
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"There is a Power around you that knows and that understands all things. This Power works like the soil; it receives the seed of your thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It will receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and throw back at you whatever you think into it."

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Aeschylus Playwright
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"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."

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