We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
TUTU DESMONDI wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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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.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Much 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.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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