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.
TUTU DESMONDForgiving 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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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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