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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Act Ego Learning Past
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision

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