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• Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Doe, Life Is, Music Is My Life

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• There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Artist, Shoes, Boots

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• I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.

  Pete Carroll

  Powerful, Hard Work, Over You

  Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.79, Penguin

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• Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Envy, Hatred

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• Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.

  Jim Elliot

  Dream, Hands, Doe

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• The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many transgressions. We didn't have the moral authority to lead anybody because we had too many injustices in our past and too many discriminations and too many thises and thats and so forth. We were not worthy of leading, and we had been leading for too long in all the wrong directions. It was really, I think, despicable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Past, Eight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

  T. S. Eliot

  Climbing, Despair, Fading

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

  Peggy Noonan

  Stress, Patriotic, Views

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• The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom of the race. They are renewed in time of conflict and danger.

  Frederick Osborn

  Life, Spring, Race

  "American Education and Soviet Propaganda".

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• None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

  Louis MacNeice

  Wall, Lying, Heart

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.147, Faber & Faber

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• He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Bees, Worthy

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”

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• I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.

  Urijah Faber

  Warrior, Past, Thinking

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• The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

  Lilias Trotter

  Names, Ideas, Long

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• As he loves us, he would have us love others. We say men are not worthy of such friendships. True, they are not. Neither are we worthy of Christ's wondrous love for us. But Christ loves us-not according to our worthiness-but according to the riches of his own loving heart! So should it be with our giving of friendship-not as the person deserves-but after the measure of our own character.

  J.R. Miller

  Heart, Character, Men

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• Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Pain, Meditation

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• What separates people that create from the people that don't is just one's ability to take action despite the fear, you know? Or to suspend the fear, or more commonly, the voice of judgment within yourself that says, "This isn't good enough. You don't deserve to do this. You're not worthy. Your expression isn't meaningful. You have nothing to contribute, just get back to your 9-to-5 job." It's not so much that I don't have all those same voices, it's more just that for some reason as a kid I was shameless enough that could plow through them for long enough to get something on the table.

  Antony Hegarty

  Meaningful, Kids, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time. I hear it so often from my students and friends. As if it doesn't take rigorous craft, and intellectual acuity to write a slammin' book of any kind. But perhaps, especially, about the body.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  America, Honor, Married

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• But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Media, Culture, News

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• O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mother, Children, Rocks

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• a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.

  Margery Wilson

  Names, Diplomats, Worthy

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• When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Two, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

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• Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Beautiful, Media, Body

  "'OTH' Star Shantel VanSanten Will Empower You!". The Insider Interview, www.yahoo.com. January 03, 2012.

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• We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Mind, Negative

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• When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Men, People, Wife

  'The Mermaid'.

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