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Quotes About Deserve

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.
~ William T. Vollmann
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
~ Joseph Joubert
I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
~ Olivia Colman
I don't think I'll get the credit I deserve, but I didn't get into this game for credit. I got into this game to be the greatest welterweight ever. If I keep knocking them out one by one, I think that will happen.
~ Tyron Woodley
On the lips of my enemy, my sister's lover, my lover's killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!
~ Karl Kesel
Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
~ Karleen Koen
Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty, she always quoted to her daughter Fanny. Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
~ Karleen Koen
We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.
~ Kate Jacobs
There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.
~ Kate Jacobs
And I know that bad people deserve what they get, but oh, how we hate to be alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Deserve. That's what I don't understand about you humans. This deserve idea. If it's love you don't have to deserve it.
~ Brittney Ryan
Detail exists not only to make us remember the things we don't want to, but to remind us that there are some things we don't deserve to forget.
~ Brock Clarke
You may rejoice to think yourselves secure, You may be grateful for the gift divine, That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine. But is it sweet to look around and view Thousands excluded from that happiness, Which they deserve at least as much as you, Their faults not greater nor their virtues less?
~ bronte anne ii
That none deserve eternal bliss I know: Unmerited the grace in mercy given, But none shall sink to everlasting woe That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven.
~ bronte anne iii
Don't settle for less than you deserve. You are worthy of love, respect, and happiness.
~ browne joy ii
There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are worthy of happiness. So often we block our blessings because we don't, at our core, feel that we're enough. Even if you've accumulated a house full of nice things and the picture of your life fits inside a beautiful frame, if you have experienced trauma but haven't excavated it, the wounded parts of you will affect everything you've managed to build.
~ Bruce D. Perry
What I've learned from talking to so many victims of traumatic events, abuse, or neglect is that after absorbing these painful experiences, the child begins to ache. A deep longing to feel needed, validated, and valued begins to take hold. As these children grow, they lack the ability to set a standard for what they deserve. And if that lack is not addressed, what
~ Bruce D. Perry
There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are worthy of happiness.
~ Bruce D. Perry
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
~ Bryant McGill
The mind is everything. What you think you become. You yourself, as much anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~ Buddha
Anyone who doesn't have the good sense to recognize what you have to offer doesn't deserve your time. Anyone who missed that point hasn't fully enjoyed the offering of your love.
~ Howard Bronson
justice will not be served if we maintain our exclusive focus on the questions that drive our current justice systems: What laws have been broken? Who did it? What do they deserve? True justice requires, instead, that we ask questions such as these: Who has been hurt? What do they need? Whose obligations and responsibilities are these? Who has a stake in this situation? What is the process that can involve the stakeholders in finding a solution?
~ Howard Zehr
Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better.
~ Iain Banks