I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
TUTU DESMONDMuch 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
-
-
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
TUTU DESMOND -
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.
TUTU DESMOND -
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.
TUTU DESMOND -
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
TUTU DESMOND -
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
TUTU DESMOND -
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
TUTU DESMOND -
The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
TUTU DESMOND -
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
TUTU DESMOND -
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
TUTU DESMOND -
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
TUTU DESMOND -
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.
TUTU DESMOND -
Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
TUTU DESMOND -
I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
TUTU DESMOND -
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.
TUTU DESMOND -
A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
TUTU DESMOND