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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

Nature, God, Friend

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength, Courage, Experience

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Good, Health, Strong

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Mind, Thought, Educated

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

Value, Seen, Receive

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl

Change, Situation, Ourselves

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

Life, Through, Learned

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Wife, Ability, Brilliant

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Mind, Humble

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Dream, Sit

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud

Great, Woman, Soul

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

Death, Another, Difference

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Education, Between, Memory

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Happiness, Morning

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Knowledge, Hate

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain

Said, Answer, Gratified

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

Until, Seldom, Ceased

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Person, Cannot, Against

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Age, Yourself

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

Money, Understand, Why

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson

Free, Read, Safe

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs

After, Creativity, Creative

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness, Good, Giving

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

Live, Someone, Perfect

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi

Broken, Stand, Order

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Give, Star, Chaos

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

Age, Human, Greatness

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Sad, Sadder

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Game, Play

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Lives, Dangerous

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