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.
TUTU DESMONDLife of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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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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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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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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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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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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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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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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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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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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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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