"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
-George MacDonald
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"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.“
-George MacDonald
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"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
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"The principle part of faith is patience."
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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
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"Attitudes are more important than facts."
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"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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