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I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Audrey Hepburn

Love, Long, Looking

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Law, Living

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi

Social, Ideal, Ought

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.
Mitch Hedberg

Down, Trying, Guy

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

Happiness, God, Everything

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Trust, Afraid, Advantage

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare

Nothing, Together, Wild

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
LeBron James

Good, Morning, Successful

Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee

Principles, Bound, Obey

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

Change, Important, Long

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
John Clayton

Time, God, Thankful

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Dreams, Poor, Feet

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

Happy, Talent, Liking

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Loneliness

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

Human, Light, Sometimes

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Whatever, Alive

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Confucius

Deep, Everything, Center

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

Poor, Shame, Ashamed

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell

After, Big, Few

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain

Gay, Proud, Fact

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
Ronald Reagan

Job, Thought, President

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Khalil Gibran

Time, End, Here

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Time, Before

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

Lost, Again, Found

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Shall, Embrace

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
Confucius

Yourself, May, Office

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Great, Same

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