We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
TUTU DESMONDWe 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.
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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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