It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
TUTU DESMONDWe 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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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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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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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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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When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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