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Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely.
a change in a law cannot force a change in people’s hearts.
“I am not the person I was born.
You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to.”
A time, rather than a place. No road led there anymore.
Seldom can one hate a person if one understands that person.”
when sleep is the only comfort you can take, take it.
“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”
I dreamed of a world in which men could not dominate all nature and impose their order upon it.
“Yes,” he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.
