Given Quotes - Page 30

• You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Order, Use

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1982). “Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957”, Full Court Pr

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• To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Suffering, Situation, Depends

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the body, mind and circumstances we were born with - even if they seem 'imperfect' to us - can all be used to create a beautiful and meaningful life. The choice is always ours - continue to wish - or accept and improve upon the gifts we've been given.

  Ron Atchison

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Choices

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• The Creator has given me the strength to look forward in life, to embrace the beautiful and the positive. Now I truly walk in beauty.

  Radmilla Cody

  Beautiful, Forward In Life, Looks

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• Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Great Men, Expecting

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• I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Loyalty, Home

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.

  L. Tom Perry

  Father, Maps, Way

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• Challenges are what you came for.
  And you are never ever given
  a challenge you cannot overcome.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Challenges, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 03, 2010

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• I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Character, Thinking, Impact

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• People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973.

  Martin Cooper

  People, Car, Office

  "38 years ago he made the first cell phone call" by Bob Greene, edition.cnn.com. April 3, 2011.

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• How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it's easier, or they're scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were?

  Jessi Kirby

  People, Needs, Chance

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• African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be given the same respect. As long as we are treated as valuable partners, we can succeed.

  Rebecca Enonchong

  Long, World, Succeed

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• If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Lazy, Term, Ifs

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2017

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• Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

  Todd Gitlin

  Everyday, Furniture, Environment

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• The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

  Tony Robbins

  Influence, Certainty, Situation

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• Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

  Plato

  Beauty, Character, Hands

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Practice, Meditation

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• Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

  Benazir Bhutto

  People, Support, Return

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

  Laozi

  Giving, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a sadness that can not be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him. And in it there is an emptiness that can not be filled except with love for Him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him. And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sadness, Heart, Knowing

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• There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

  Leon Kass

  World, Ancient, Tension

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• People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.

  John P. Kotter

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.14, Harvard Business Press

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• I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

  Brian Molko

  Two, Records, Taste

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• I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

  Clara Schumann

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

  Peter Shaffer

  Dark, Light, Play

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