We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
TUTU DESMONDA person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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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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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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