Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
TUTU DESMONDIn the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.
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Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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