642 Quotes About Dignity
- Author Shunya
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If a ball doesn't move the way they expect, physicists would be disappointed with their theory of gravitation, not with the ball.When people don't behave the way we expect, we should be disappointed with our theories about people, not people. Human beings are not dead things. Let's stop trying to conform each other to our theories about each other.
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- Author Donavan Nelson Butler
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Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.
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- Author Anita Brookner
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Love imposes obligations and these are constant. An intermittent lover is no use to a person of dignity and courage.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.
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- Author Bruce Reyes-Chow
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Kindness is not just the absence of being mean or hateful. Being kind entails actively resisting actions, ideas, and institutions that rob others of dignity.
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- Author Bruce Reyes-Chow
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Kindness, and the commitment to see the other as deserving of human dignity, demands of us to protest, resist, and do all that we can to fight that which says otherwise. Not only do we have the power to make sure that things do not get worse, but over the long haul, we also have the power to make long-lasting change for good.I need you.We need one another.We can only do this together.
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- Author Karen Swallow Prior
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Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More
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- Author Shunya
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You will get love and respect from others when you stop craving for it.
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- Author Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
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Las mujeres se presentan francas y risueñas, comprendiendo muy bien que no es preciso ser mojigatas para ser virtuosas
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