You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ― Desmond Tutu

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Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

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The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. ― Desmond Tutu

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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. ― Desmond Tutu

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Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better. _ Tracey Edmonds

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Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.

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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. ― Desmond Tutu

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ― Mahatma Gandhi

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