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“The secret of life is: what you serve is what you get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.” —Job 4:8


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“A God all mercy is a God unjust.” —Edward Young, 1683-1765

“And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.” —Mark 4:24

“As this belief is, so will be our acts and our thoughts. As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.” —Seneca

“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.” —Anonymous

“Enjoying God is better than enjoying yourself.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.” —Job 4:8

“Falling in love is easy, staying in love is work.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;” —John 5:26

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” —Third Law of Motion (Issac Newton)

“Get what you give.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Get what you serve.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Give what you want to get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” —Desiderius Erasmus

“He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.” —Marcus Aurelius

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hell is your ego-mind without darkness to hide its ugliness and energy to animate it enough to appear alive, but only consciousness of dead and ugly thoughts (brimstone) and destruction (fire) to keep the thoughts disintegrating.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” —Arthur Rubinstein, 1887-1982, musician

“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.” —Norman Vincent Peale

“Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.” —Snoopy

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” —Mahatma Gandhi (apparently modified from an earlier saying 1885, 1897, see below)

“Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.” —Sophocles, Ajax

“Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.” —Sophocles, 447 B.C.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’“ —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” —Elbert Hubbard, 1865-1915

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” —William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.” —William Shakespeare

“Our aspirations are our possibilities.” —Robert Browning

“Purpose in life as medicament for mortality and suffering: chaos to confront, order to establish and revivify, and evil to overcome. ’12 Rules for Life’ in a nutshell.” —Jordan Peterson

“Serve what you want to get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.” —Charles Reade

“The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.” —Florence Shinn, 1871-1940, writer

“The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.” —Sigmund Freud

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” —Robert Byrne

“The pursuit of happiness begins and ends with inner peace.” —Pirkei Avot 4: 1

“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.” —Tibetan proverb

“The story of life is that Jesus made His own angels to serve Him in Heaven for eternity.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“There is poetic justice.” —Aphorism

“They will get theirs in the end.” —Aphorism

“This world is a mountain. What we do is a shout. The echo comes back to us.” —Rumi

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” —Saying developed over time [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/10/watch-your-thoughts/]

“We all know that as we are beneficent toward nature, it becomes beneficent towards us.” —Xenophon, Estate Management

“We are punished by our sins, not for them.” —Elbert Hubbard

“We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.” —Swami Vivekananda

“What goes around comes around.” —Aphorism

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” —William Arthur Ward

“When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.” —Benjamin Franklin

“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.” —Bill Copeland

“Would you rather have a trivial pleasure or the greatest happiness? Make sacrifices to attain the latter.” —Dhammapada, Other Things, verse 290

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” —Gautama Buddha

“You’ll yield what you give.” —John Cera

“Your focus becomes your experience.” —William James


Quotations from Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

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“Attach your awareness of self to your internal space and so be yourself.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Do you want what you deserve because that is what you will get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Get what you give.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Get what you serve.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Give what you want to get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Life is expression and expression happens by reflection.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Mind is a magnet attracting what it dwells on.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Serve what you want to get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The hell you want for others is the hell you get because that hell is formed from images, concepts, and objects of your self.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The meaning of life is life.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The practical secret of life is that you should give the very thing that you want, for example, if you want friendship then give friendship.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: only you control how you feel.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: sharing to increase joy.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: what you serve is what you get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: you agree beforehand to everything that happens to you.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: you can only influence, not control.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: you get what you give.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: you get what you want for others.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The secret of life is: you must bear the bad to be able to choose the good over the bad.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The spiritual secret of life is that in the end, you will get exactly what you served most.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“The way to be served is to serve.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Use your suffering or your suffering will use you.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“What you serve is what you get.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“Whining, blaming, and damning is throwing dust into the wind only for it to return to hurt your eyes.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“You can only harvest what you planted.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“You get what you want for others.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“You serve it, you get it.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“You serve it, you have it.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“You will be punished by your sins, not for your sins.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice


Quotations from Scripture

Listed in Biblical Order

“Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.” —Job 4:8

“For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.” —Job 34:11

“He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.” —Proverbs 22:8

“Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he come and rain righteousness upon you.” —Hosea 10:12

“My son, sow not upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.” —Ecclesiasticus 7:3

“Forgive thy neighbour the hurt that he hath done unto thee, so shall thy sins also be forgiven when thou prayest.” —Ecclesiasticus 28:2

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” —Matthew 6:21

“A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.” —Matthew 12:35

“The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.” —Matthew 13:39

“And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.” —Mark 4:24

“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” —Luke 6:45

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” —Luke 12:34

“For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” —Luke 14:11

“In your patience possess ye your souls.” —Luke 21:19

“For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;” —John 5:26

“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” —Romans 6:16

“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” —II Corinthians 9:6

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” —Galatians 6:7

“For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” —Galatians 6:8

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” —Philippians 4:8

“When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” 2 Thessalonians 1:10

“For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” —Hebrews 2:10


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