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We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. Ellen G. White

Death God Son Own Sum Our Immense Ourselves Purchased Cost Price Dear Been Even Sufferings Belong

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God. Ellen G. White

God Faith Wonderful Vain Favor Hopeful Must Some Only Through Idea Make Becomes Sinner Effort Child Order Gain Connecting Many Believing Jesus Vague Vague Idea

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer

Kindness Made Become Own Kind Motive Being

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

Happiness Sources Chief Unhappiness Search

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. Garrison Keillor

Roman Empire Down Luxuries Air Air Conditioning Brought Windows Empire Like Coming Were Hear Conditioning Roman Barbarians Shut

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education People Seriously Danger Horrible Taking Deadly Without Educated Educated People

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Day Beer Man Walk Will Summer Steadily Ten Invented He Road Hot Soon Along Discover Dusty Miles English Why

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Property Respect Wish Become Thieves More Merely Perfectly May

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. Guy de Maupassant

Life Worth Living Worth Living Make Encounter Lives

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. H. L. Mencken

Self-Respect Feeling Secure No-One Suspicious

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert

Love Kindness People Consists More Part Than Loving Deserve

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence Every Hierarchy Rise Tends Employee His Level

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one. Lewis Grizzard

Will Mistakes Wiggle Out More Than Trying Forgive Often Public

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Mary Wollstonecraft

Justice Charity World Wanting

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. Mason Cooley

Time Change Complaining Complaints Spent Never Reduce Amount

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same. Melody Beattie

You Relatives Free Feel Know Same Your Set

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested. Octavia E. Butler

Bullying Seen Feeling Victim Everyone Has-Been Laughing Silent Seeing Joining Been Bullies Bully Disgusted Interested Keeping

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world. Octavia E. Butler

Bullying Suffering Racism World Simple Cause Behavior Beginning Other Hierarchical Kind Sexism Only Lead Much

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