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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips
Excuses
Gave
Got
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Nhat Hanh
Allow
Bodies
Genuinely
Heal
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
Nhat Hanh
Carry
Communication
Earth
Environment
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Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Nhat Hanh
Beings
Compassion
Fill
Hearts
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
Nhat Hanh
Beautiful
Because
Life
Make
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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Nhat Hanh
Basic
Daily
Daily Life
Everyone
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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Nhat Hanh
Cannot
Ignore
Know
Love
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With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
Nhat Hanh
Afraid
Anything
Because
Child
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Identify the enemy which is oftentimes our own attitude. Have faith and trust God to see you through the season.
Arunma Oteh
The enemy
Attitude
Faith
Trust God
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Admit your own inadequacy. The only people God can’t help are those who don’t think they need His help.
Arunma Oteh
Inadequacy
God
Need
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Always remember that integrity is key, never compromise on your standards, and never compromise on your values.
Arunma Oteh
Integrity
Standards
Never
Values
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Often our eyes are on everything and everyone – except God – the one who can solve our problems.
Arunma Oteh
Eyes
God
Solve
Problems
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Africa needs women entrepreneurs to be big, bold, innovative, and have a growth mindset, to unleash their wealth in terms of people and resources. We also need to foster an ecosystem that enables innovation and entrepreneurship.
Arunma Oteh
Africa
Women
Entrepreneurs
Big
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Invest in yourself, crave knowledge, read, read and read.
Arunma Oteh
Invest
Crave
Yourself
Read
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Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.
Winnie Byanyima
Economies
Extreme
Inequality
Temporary
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Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk.
Winnie Byanyima
Benefits
Capture
Share
Retain
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Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.
Winnie Byanyima
Cutting
Down
Forest
Loss
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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.
Winnie Byanyima
Act
Continue
Crisis
Future
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Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.
Winnie Byanyima
Abuse
Africa
Community
Global
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Bane
Corruption
Greatest
Single
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Business
Country
Eradicate
Human
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Burning
Concern
Constant
Dedication
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I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Acknowledge
Country
Develop
Endeavor
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We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Eliminate
Genuine
Investment
Laws
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Believe
Doing
End
God
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna
After
Believe
Doing
Dreams
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
Mahavira
Excess
Hands
Need
Same
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
Mahavira
Effort
Relaxation
Exception
Part
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
Mahavira
Birth
Cause
Death
Effect
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When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Nhat Hanh
About
Always
Another
Chance
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We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
Nhat Hanh
Biggest
Bodies
Cease
Complete
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Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
Nhat Hanh
Behind
Difficult
Even
Experience
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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Nhat Hanh
Anger
Capacity
Embrace
Fear
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It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Nhat Hanh
Art
Chronic
Clear
Creative
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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Grateful
People
Happy
Charming
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Marcel Proust
Always
Life
Keep
Above
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Receive
Wisdom
Discover
Journey
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
Marcel Proust
Tears
Hard
Have
Caused
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
Marcel Proust
Make
Reality
Endurable
Nourish
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
Final
Decision
State
Mind
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
Marcel Proust
Desire
Cut-across
Confused
Existence
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It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
Marcel Proust
Impelled
Mind
Destined
Irrevocable
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Marcel Proust
Through
Art
Emerge
Person
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Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
Marcel Proust
Even
Simplest
Realistic
Countries
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Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.
Marcel Proust
Worst
Fear
Greatest-hope
Powers
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine
Marcel Proust
Instead
Imagination
Suppose
Worthless
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
Marcel Proust
Lying
Ourselves
Cease
Notice
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Been
Country
Dear
History
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Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.
Marcel Proust
Desire
Interweave
One
Existence
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
Marcel Proust
Sometimes
Future
Latent
Supposedly
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