Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
TUTU DESMONDIn the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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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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