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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Cultivate Weak Love Unfortunate
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In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Great Proportion Degree Happiness
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Exercise Privilege Vastly Important
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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Majority Good Right Truth
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Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Worth Result Except Hard
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Severe Constant Result Progress
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Permit Stoop Hate Never
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In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Social Progress Hand Finger
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Merit Universal Human Reward
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

Polite Grow Result Patient
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Education is not a thing apart from life—not a

Work System Life Education
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Growth Great Trials Remain
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

Gospel Save Sufficient Declare
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Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer,

Today Accept Love Answer
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Sorrow Fear Life Approach
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Grace Wallow Guilt Remorse
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

Right Buy Weapon Free
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Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
Christ Rest Christ Identity
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Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Wisdom Awaken Security Scripture
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Demand Faith Courage Present
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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Spirit Mind Idea Child
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Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

Experience Taught Connect Best
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There is the

Paradox Remember Contradiction Good
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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.

Word Adequately Explain Single
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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

Victorious Flinched Questioned Faitful
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
Love Nobody God Because
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Most Create Act Ever
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No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Different Direction Ever Found
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
Love Need Reason Heart
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Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.

Forever Suffocate Breath Holding
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If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Return Grow Get Fear
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I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

Life Subject Awareness Body
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Plenty Stay Moment Life
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We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Soul Realm Calm Still
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Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
Field Entire Nervous Medication
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The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

Opportunity Level Problem Highest
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If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

Focus Stress Success Pursue
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The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Worse Curse Conformity Need
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I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn’t the truth; it’s what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Afraid Truth Order Pain
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Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Emotion Sex Always Good
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Walk with those seeking truth… Run from those who think they’ve found it.
Truth Found Walk Seek
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In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be a success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.

Success Excellence Process Ignore
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Might Destiny Life Think
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You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Positive Choice Rest Life
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“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.”
Moving Goals Doing Away
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“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”

Habit Positive Expectations Event
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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

Control Attitude Toward Happens
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