Exchanging Quotes

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Martha Beck

Lonely, Being Alone, Oxygen

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love You, Heart, Humble

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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

J. William Fulbright

Sympathy, Education, Hope

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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

J. William Fulbright

Education, Wisdom, Peace

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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

Brennan Manning

Life, Giving, Words Of Wisdom

Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.101, Tyndale House

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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love, Recovery, Self

Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

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Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!

Tony Robbins

Love, Romantic, Business

FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 16, 2012

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Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Bernard Meltzer

Happiness, Happy, Kissing

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Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Marianne Williamson

Inspirational, Spiritual Gifts

FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 08, 2013

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There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immobile. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep.

Patti Smith

Children, Sleep, Kissing

"Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, January 19, 2010.

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Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

Vine Deloria Jr.

Country, War, Successful

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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

Aimee Bender

Daughter, Father, Language

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And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

Timothy Leary

Philosophy, Reality, Information

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I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

Melina Marchetta

Thinking, Hands, Knowing

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Every man lives by exchanging.

Adam Smith

Men, Economics, Trade

Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.31, VM eBooks

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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creativity, Creating, Want

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Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.

Jessica Day George

Princess, Eye, Blue

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He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don’t think I will, M. Then I’ll make you. Really? How?I’m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won’t leave any evidence.

Tessa Dare

Thinking, Painful, Conversation

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We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Anais Nin

Kitchen, Mind, Diabolical

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In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work.

Robert Fano

Learning, Thinking, People

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'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'

Carl Sagan

Truth, Book, Opportunity

Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.550, Ballantine Books

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Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. ... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

Claude Bernard

Science, Numbers, Progress

Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

Bob Goff

People, Forever, Use

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