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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
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
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Civil Rights Country Justice Love Movement Social
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage

Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

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