I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONOne thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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