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«Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.»
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
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«I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.»
«Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.»
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Philosopher)
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«Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
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Books
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ignore, in return, like it, my version, offer, own version, return, version, versions
«A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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Gifts
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from the heart, in return, pure, return, Right to return, The Right Time
«It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.»
«Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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allows, beware, bewares, blow, blowing up, blown up, blow out, blow over, forgive, forgives, neither, Nor, return, The Man, The Man Who
«A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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«In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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abet, abuses, abusing, allegiance, despot, despots, hostile, in return, liberty, of his own, priest, protection, protections, return
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