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“Sin is not some demonic thing. It’s just our perverse tendency to fuck things up, to favor the short term over the long term, the lower over the higher. Sin, when it is committed over and over again, hardens into loyalty to a lower love.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
― Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

“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

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi