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• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  Edith Sitwell

  Taken, Fire, Discipline

  Edith Sitwell's remarks on converting to Roman Catholicism at the age of 67, in news reports, August 15, 1955.

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• As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Sacrifice, Chess, Praise

  Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books

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• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Blessed, Animal

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

  Johannes Kepler

  Men, Matter, Wonder

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• In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Mind, Economic

  "Your Start-Up Life: Dan Pink on Why “Passion” Doesn’t Matter". Interview with Rana Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

  Patrick Pearse

  Wise, People, Inspire

  "The Murder Machine". Book by Patrick Pearse, 1976.

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• Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.

  John Calvin

  Men, Law, Numbers

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stepped, Took the face-cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee- Like summer tempest came her tears- 'Sweet my child, I live for thee.' -Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Colleen Houck

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Motivational, Work

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• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Mean, Exercise

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• Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Brave, Imperfect, Sometimes

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

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• Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Names, Goal

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• The next time the devil tempts you to think that you are not worthy to approach God, here is what I advise: Agree. Say, “You are right. I am not worthy to approach God. I never was worthy to approach God. I never will be worthy to approach God. My access to God’s presence is not based on my worthiness, it is based on what Christ did for me on the cross.

  Greg Laurie

  Thinking, Devil, Next

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• What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Happens, Whole

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• To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.

  Joseph Needham

  Real, Aztec, Achievement

  Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific

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• Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Ambition, Evil, Way

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.

  Kevin Hearne

  Love, Purpose, Shapes

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• . . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Blood, Sea

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3670, Manonmani Publishers

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• There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it. And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. They believe they're worthy.

  Brené Brown

  Strong, Believe, Struggle

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

  John Green

  Valuable, Worthy Of Love

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• One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

  Epictetus

  Character, Role Models, Roles

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• We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of heart, whether they achieve wide recognition or not. Cultivating such a beautiful mind is a very worthy effort. Culture and art are not just decorations. They are not just accessories. What matters is whether culture enriches the essential substance of our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Art, What Matters

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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, Combs

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

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• When you really believe that you are worthy of the best, that you deserve the best & that there is enough of the best for you to have plenty, there will be no need for you to hold on to what you have. Allow yourself to imagine what your life would be like if your hands and heart were to receive something better than what you are holding onto right now.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Heart, Hands

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 21, 2015

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• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blessing

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