When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

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Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action. ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

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Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine

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When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media. ― Bell Hooks

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But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks

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Base your relationships on the right values. — Dick Gephardt

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The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful. – William Shatner

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Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action. ― Steve Maraboli

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