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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Tutu Desmond

Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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End Experience God Hope Live Lose Sad Suffer Time Word World Writing
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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Challenge Connection Philosophy Separate Togetherness Unity
We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Break Hard Heart Broken Philosophy
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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Discover Joy Philosophy Possible True Weakness
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Children God Sorry Suffer
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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Art Human Life Philosophy Suffer
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
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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Beautiful Human Truth World
To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Children Protect Sex Violence
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Deep Family God Yourself
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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Flower Joy People Philosophy Yourself

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