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• See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Acceptance, Blessing, Self

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Self, Judging

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• Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

  Lord Chesterfield

  New Year, Years, Honor

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• We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

  P. D. James

  Charity, Dull, Helping

  P.D. James (2012). “Cover Her Face: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ecosystems, People

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• I've always felt that if I am deserving of the Medal of Honor, there are many, many others who are. I felt a little bad receiving it, so I received it on behalf of the fellows, because there's no such thing as a single-handed war. There's always a support group, and if you didn't have people who supported you, you couldn't fight a war.

  Daniel Inouye

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

  Paul David Tripp

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Self

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• Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Animal, Sight

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• One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.

  John Fante

  Night, Light, Doors

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.411, Canongate Books

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• In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Wall, Eye

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

  Sarah Palin

  Teacher, School, America

  Palin, Biden debate, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Animal, Emotional

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

  Albert Camus

  Would Be, Virtue, Granted

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Life, Hard Work, Learning

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• Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Magic, Desire

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

  P. L. Travers

  Creativity, Light, Creative

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• As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.

  David Platt

  Wrath, Race, Hands

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• For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: 'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!"

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Prayer, Children

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

  Gene Kelly

  Drama, Awards, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

  Khalil Gibran

  Respect, Teacher, Teaching

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• I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

  Robert Ringer

  Spiritual, Believe, Our Actions

  Robert J. Ringer (1990). “Million dollar habits”, Wynwood

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

  William Hazlitt

  Success, Deserving It, Achievement

  William Hazlitt (1857). “The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt”, p.223

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• These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

  Marilynne Robinson

  People, Giving, Justice

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.98, Macmillan

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• I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

  George Washington

  Brave, Rewards, Merit

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 2) Comprising official letters relating to the French War, and private letters before the American Revolution”, p.124

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