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    José N. Harris
    “There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”
    ― José N. Harris
    tags: a-story-of-faith, drama, hope-and-love, life, living, prayer, resilience, stength, struggling, walk-away
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    “To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.”
    ― Hannah Gadsby
    tags: humanity, power, resilience, strength
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, Louisiana's Way Home
    tags: hope, middle-school, resilience
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    Alain de Botton
    “A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: life, living, resilience
    209 likes

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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    Epictetus
    “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Criss Jami
    “A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: bad-days, beautiful, divine-intervention, god, loneliness, quality-time, refresh, restoration, signs, solitude
    388 likes

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  • #8
    “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
    ― John Holmes
    tags: charity, compassion, friendship, generosity, helping-others
    1485 likes

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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
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  • #10
    A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
    “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, blessings, compassion, generosity, giving, helping-others, kindness, life, success
    866 likes

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    Carmen Agra Deedy
    “Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.”
    ― Carmen Agra Deedy, 14 Cows for America
    tags: generosity, humanity, loss
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  • #12
    “Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first.

    Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943) ”
    ― John Surowiecki
    tags: generosity
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    Charles Alexander Eastman
    “It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.”
    ― Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)
    tags: culture, generosity, materialism, native-american-wisdom, simplicity
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.”
    ― Dalai Lama
    tags: compassion, generosity, inspirational, loving-kindness, spiritual
    40 likes

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    Chris Ernest Nelson
    “Our greatest social responsibility is to demonstrate to all others how to live in this world of hunger, sorrow, and injustice with generosity, dignity, and decency.”
    ― Chris Ernest Nelson
    tags: decency, dignity, generosity, hunger, injustice, responsibility, sorrow
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “If I don’t recognize a gift as a gift it will be something, but it won’t be a gift.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: generosity, gift, giving, present, sacrificial, thoughtful
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Jodi Picoult
    “When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
    tags: critics, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love
    2006 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: denial, self-awareness
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    André Malraux
    “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
    ― André Malraux
    tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness
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    François Fénelon
    “All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.”
    ― Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
    tags: humanity, humans, nationalism, patriotism, war
    254 likes

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  • #22
    Molière
    “Those who have greatest cause for guilt and shame
    Are quickest to besmirch a neighbour's name.
    When there's a chance for libel, they never miss it;
    When something can be made to seem illicit
    They're off at once to spread the joyous news,
    Adding to fact what fantasies they choose.
    By talking up their neighbour's indiscretions
    They seek to camouflage their own transgressions,
    Hoping that other's innocent affairs
    Will lend camouflage to theirs,
    Or that their own black guilt will come to seem
    Part of a gerenal shady color-sheme”
    ― Molière
    16 likes



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