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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Strength, Small, Faithful

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

Love, Immature, Says

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

America, Lose, Ourselves

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

Live, Evil, Place

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Life, Strong, Young

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Failure, Mind

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

Everything, Sun, Else

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Forgotten, Belong

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

Forward, Moving, Down

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg

Fake, Water, Died

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

Everything, Cannot, Refuse

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

Good, Hope, Fear

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Men, Sleep, Night

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet

Beauty, Beautiful, Fun

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Men, Wise, Speak

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Live, Die

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

Music, Him, Different

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

Character, Others, While

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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Love, Living

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

Peace, Happiness, God

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Mother, Greatest

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Courage, Important, Nothing

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa

Less, Ocean, Ourselves

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

Him, Why, Loved

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat

Life, Love, Good

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson

Honest, Gone, Explain

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emotional, Win, Cannot

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Buddha

Mind, Remain, Arises

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

Giving, Done, Smoking

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