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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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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Discover Hard Heart Broken Joy Philosophy Save
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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Beautiful Friendship Good Love Togetherness World
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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Beginning Possible Suffer Transformation
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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Animal Appreciation Justice Oppression Philosophy Situation 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
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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Alone Connection Deep Forgiveness Healing Hurt Philosophy Relationship Story
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
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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Fire Smart Warm Winter Yourself
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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Beginning Forgiveness Grace Person Philosophy True
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
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
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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Language Philosophy Power Reality
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Compassion Deep Discover Empathy God Philosophy Soul Vulnerable Weak
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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Good Philosophy Togetherness World Yourself
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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Beginning Forget Forgiveness 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
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Believe End Fail God Good Himself Love Philosophy Spiritual
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Love Philosophy Plant
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
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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Alone Human Person Relationship
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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Attitude Judge Lonely Negative People Philosophy Separate Yourself
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Alone God Learning Philosophy Spiritual Truth

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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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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