"Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I've done is to prepare myself to give back."

-- Manti Te'o

#Children Quotes #Giving Quotes #Community Quotes

“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”
“Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.”
“Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.”
“A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.”
“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animalâ€™s rhythm of rest and activity.”
“To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.”
“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.”
“I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.”

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