“ Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. How are you is a greeting, not a question. ”
- Arthur Guiterman- Copy
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“ I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving — not giving and taking. ”
- Joyce Grenfell- Copy
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“ Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy. ”
- Jennie Jerome Churchill- Copy
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“ Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. ”
- Shakti Gawain- Copy
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“ I have come to believe that a life enslaved to one Goal, no matter how noble, becomes a mechanism rather than an organism, a business plan rather than a biography, a tool rather than a gift. ”
- James Ogilvy- Copy
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“ Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ”
- Nicolas Chamfort- Copy
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“ I was involved in impeachment. I can tell you what it's like to be involved on the receiving end of some of this. ”
- Lindsey Graham- Copy
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“ I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. ”
- Berke Breathed- Copy
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“ When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. ”
- Shakti Gawain- Copy
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“ An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. ”
- Harold Lokes- Copy
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“ When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery. ”
- Katherine Mansfield- Copy
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“ A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
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“ Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. ”
- Remy de Gourmont- Copy
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“ Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are. ”
- Archibald Alexander- Copy
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“ We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love. ”
- Bernie Siegel- Copy
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