Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
TUTU DESMONDDiscovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream to find out why they’re falling in.
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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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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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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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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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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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If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
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