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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.Rabindranath Tagore
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
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I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.Criss Jami
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When you know your purpose in life, then by faith you know God will enable you to do itSunday Adelaja
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It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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God never fails. No matter how long it takes, the promise will be fulfilled.Lailah Gifty Akita
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How are you feeling, man?" he asks me." Great, " I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out of a bare tree and turn at the same instant, transforming themselves from steel to silver in the snow-blown light. I know at that moment that the drug is working. Everything before me has become suddenly, radiantly itself. How could Carlton have known this was about to happen? "Oh, " I whisper. His hand settles on my shoulder." Stay loose, Frisco, " he says. "There's not a thing in this pretty world to be afraid of. I'm here." I am not afraid. I am astonished. I had not realized until this moment how real everything is. A twig lies on the marble at my feet, bearing a cluster of hard brown berries. The broken-off end is raw, white, fleshly. Trees are alive." I'm here, " Carlton says again, and he is. .Michael Cunningham
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We have joy for the assurance of the promise.Lailah Gifty Akita
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If you value your words, people will not ask you to make any promises.Amit Kalantri
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One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.Anthony Liccione
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Plan and plant your gifts. Pray and play your role. The harvest is assured when God manifests his anointing power in your passionate actions.Israelmore Ayivor
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Remind Youth: It is not necessary to look for confidence. It is there — potentially yours and never hidden; awaiting a commanding voice of faith, hope and affirmation. Speak repetitiously with authority and conviction the self-assurance which only seems lacking, but you simply lost touch with.T.F. Hodge
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Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.Eleanor Roosevelt
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Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.Gertrude Himmelfarb