Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
TUTU DESMONDOut of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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