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#1

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding

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#2

“Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.”
― Peggy O'Mara

tags: babies, biological, child, children, instinct, mothering, normal, parenting, parents

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#3

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”
― Peggy O'Mara

tags: child-rearing, children, communication, inner-voice

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#4

“Hitting is never the best way to teach a child. Even in the case of real danger - as when a child runs out into the road - you can grab him, sit him down, look him in the eyes, and tell him why he must never do that again. The panic in your voice will communicate your message much more effectively than any spanking. You can be dramatic without being abusive.”
― Peggy O'Mara

tags: gentle-discipline

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#5

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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#6

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind

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#7

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: compassion, happiness

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#8

“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai-lama, happiness, harm-reduction

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#9

“A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: compassion

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#10

“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: compassion

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#11

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish

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#12

“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily
do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.”
― St. Therese of Lisieux

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#13

“Language falters in the abyss; it fractures at the site of trauma. We need to find a different way of speaking from the depths, reclaiming the notion that language about God is always fractured language, always broken, and never complete.”
― Shelly Rambo, Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining

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#14

“The challenge of trauma is the challenge of witnessing to a phenomenon that exceeds the categories by which we make sense of the world.”
― Shelly Rambo, Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining

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#15

“Make it a practice to judge
persons and things in the most favorable light
at all times and under all circumstances.”
― St. Vincent de Paul

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#16

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

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#17

“I had not been able to show, by finite things, because My love was infinite, how much more love I had, I wished you to see the secret of the Heart,”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

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#18

“Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.”
― John Stott

tags: christianity, conservatism, faith, radicalism

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#19

“When it comes to conserving wildlife and the environment, It's more important to be outspoken, than unspoken”
― Paul Oxton

tags: activism, africa, animals, conservatism, environment, wildlife

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#20

“Blaming public Christians for being ‘too political’ is like blaming Noah’s ark for being ‘too wet”
― Douglas Wilson, Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

tags: christianity, conservatism, politics

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#21

“Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: conservatism

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#22

“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…”
― Will Durant

tags: civilzation, conservatism, education

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#23

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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