There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
TUTU DESMONDDifferences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need for one another.
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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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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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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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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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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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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.
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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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Out 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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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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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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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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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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