Cherish Quotes

• Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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• It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

  Helen Keller

  Art, Spring, Pride

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

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• No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Window Panes, Innovation

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• Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Noble, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Positive, Being Happy, Appreciation

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.153, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

  William Blake

  Angel, Doors, Innocence And Experience

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'Holy Thursday'

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Lasting Happiness, Understanding

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

  Washington Irving

  Mourning, Sorrow, Affliction

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.270

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• True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that we polish ourselves now can we hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, People, Stronger

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• Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

  James Allen

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

  Oldiees Publishing, James Allen (2015). “The Book of Inspiration: As a Man Thinketh - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT”, p.16, Oldiees Publishing

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• But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

  Joshua

  Dream, Men, Purpose

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• Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

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• Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

  Millard Fuller

  Circles, People, Creative

  Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Regret

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Sacrifice, Liberty

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• A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

  Ron Paul

  Sound, Saving, Credit

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

  Elle Macpherson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Vanity

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• Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Freedom, Democracy, Today

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• It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

  Alice Walker

  Women, Famous Inspirational, Flower

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• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

  Evelyn Waugh

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  "Diaries of Evelyn Waugh" by Evelyn Waugh, (p. 786), 1976.

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• Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

  Liza Minnelli

  Wedding, Kindness, People

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• Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hands

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.556, Library of America

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• I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

  Spike Lee

  People, African American, Black

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