Birthright Quotes - Page 2

• When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

  Brené Brown

  Anything Is Possible, Worthiness, Belonging

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• Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Water Of Life, Essence, People

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• Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Scholarship, Mess, Sells

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103

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• To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

  Bill Bryson

  Sensual, Purpose, Mouths

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

  Paul Farmer

  Health, School, People

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• The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.

  Robert Holden

  Pain, Real, Believe

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.100, Hay House, Inc

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• As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Poverty, Pity, Virtue

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thinking, Differences, Knowing

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• The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

  William Osler

  Eye, Clear Head, Each Day

  William Osler (2013). “A Way of Life”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

  David Wolfe

  Success, Spiritual, Emotional

  David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

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• The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Religious, Men, Liberty

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.353, Delphi Classics

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• It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.

  Rob Brezsny

  Gratitude, Art, Promise

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• Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Needs, Earth

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• The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia.

  Tench Coxe

  Gun, Second Amendment, Arms

  The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788.

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• Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart

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• Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Humanity, Force

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.202

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• Contrary to what you may think, an immoral act of any kind will only lower your self-esteem. Be true to yourselves, and your respect for yourself will increase. Know that yours is a divine birthright. Cultivate a good opinion of yourselves. Others may make cutting remarks concerning you. This is only a sign of their ignorance and not of your qualities. Walk with that dignity which is becoming a young woman who is a daughter of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Self Esteem, Ignorance

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• It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.

  Caroline Myss

  Destiny, Over You, Sacred

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2013

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• A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Memories, Stress, Soul

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• Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Space, Water

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.13, Best Books on

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• It takes a warrior's courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don’t have to earn this right; it’s yours as part of your birthright.

  Debbie Ford

  Warrior, Views, Earth

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• Unconditional love is our birthright!

  Anita Moorjani

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Unconditional

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2016

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• Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Commitment, Generosity, Aristocracy

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• To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.

  Katherine Marsh

  Men, Affection, Babe

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• You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Daughter, Father, Gossip

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