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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
    2005 likes

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    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: friendship, incredibly-true, mutuality, reciprocity, respect, trust
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
    11793 likes

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  • #5
    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, assumption, change, compassion, inspirational, judging, kindness, life, respect, success
    1875 likes

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  • #6
    Harper Lee
    “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: racism, respect
    2174 likes

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  • #7
    I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit
    “I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: breakup, commit, deserve, goodbye, happiness, inspirational, life, love, motivational, relationship, respect
    1318 likes

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  • #8
    Laurence Sterne
    “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
    ― Laurence Sterne
    tags: manners, morality, morals, respect
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: betrayal, break-ups, cheating, class, compassion, courtesy, gentleman, honor, ladies, leading-a-woman-on, love, manners, manning-up, men, mixed-signals, players, relationships, respect, respecting-others, respecting-women, true-gentlemen
    705 likes

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  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
    tags: loss, respect, self-respect
    452 likes

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  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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  • #12
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
    4558 likes

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    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer
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  • #14
    Robert Frost
    “Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: prayer
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  • #15
    Mother Teresa
    “The Simple Path
    Silence is Prayer
    Prayer is Faith
    Faith is Love
    Love is Service
    The Fruit of Service is Peace”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: faith, love, mother, path, peace, prayer, service, simple, teresa
    759 likes

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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7772 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude
    2710 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, leadership, self-control
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto
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  • #20
    James Dean
    “Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
    ― James Dean
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, aspirations, carpe-diem, inspirational
    1363 likes

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    John Wooden
    “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image
    1416 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, rake
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  • #23
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
    13229 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
    12717 likes

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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
    3953 likes

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  • #26
    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: devotion, love, love-at-first-sight, true-love
    3833 likes

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  • #28
    Nicholas Sparks
    “How far should a person go in the name of true love?”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
    tags: devotion, love, self-sacrifice, true-love
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  • #29
    E.L. James
    “I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed
    tags: love, madly-in-love, true-love
    463 likes

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  • #30
    Mandy Hale
    “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”
    ― Mandy Hale
    tags: chasing, friends, friendship, knowing-your-worth, love, not-settling, positive-thinking, self-worth, stop-the-chase, the-single-woman, true-friends, true-love
    522 likes



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