Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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