Cherish Quotes - Page 28

• Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

  Olaus Murie

  Wise, Land, Numbers

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• Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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• College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

  Diana Palmer

  Mother, Father, Nursing

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• Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

  Brian Swimme

  Death, Awareness, Embrace

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• Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

  Andre Gide

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Civilization, Advice

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• I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

  James Polshek

  Ideas, Kind, Candor

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• If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more

  Jim Stynes

  Life, Cancer, Disease

  Jim Stynes (2012). “My Journey”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Mind, Needs

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• Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Garden, Worry, Soul

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.104, Rodale

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• I promise to love and cherish each of my sweet-faced
  fans forever

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Forever, Promise

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• Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Light, Inner Peace, Tears

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• Be kind today....to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.

  Ian Lawton

  Best Love, Love You, Good Friend

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• Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.

  Marion Woodman

  Philosophy, Cat, Order

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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• We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Believe, Hard Work, Perfect

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• Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

  Rebecca West

  Race, Different Nationalities, Deeds

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.616, Open Road Media

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• Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Artist, People, Culture

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• As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

  U Thant

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Humility

  Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don't find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they're at.

  Delano Johnson

  Ghetto, People, Finding Love

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• Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

  Saint Augustine

  War, May, Spirit

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• I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

  Sarah Palin

  Accomplishment, Role Models, Roles

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• A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

  Nick Rahall

  Equality, Law, People

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• ...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dark, Self, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.5, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

  Fred Rogers

  Choices, Creative, Television

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Long, Quality, World

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