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#1

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: anger, bitterness, rage

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#2

“This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.”
― Hillary Jordan, Mudbound

tags: emptiness, rage

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#3

“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: hagrid

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#4

“It's the dying that makes the living matter.”
― Kelly Sue DeConnick, Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike

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#5

“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

I have a duty!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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#6

“Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

tags: granny-aching, inspirational, kindness-to-animals, terry-pratchett, wee-free-men

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#7

“She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

tags: discworld, granny-aching

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#8

“The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

tags: calling, teachers

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#9

“There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: american-rainbow-eagle, bigotry, charleston-masacre, choosing-love-over-hate, coexistence, common-ground, compassion, cultural-literacy, diversity, end-jihad-violence, faith-in-humanity, faith-in-love, give-peace-a-chance, gun-laws, gun-violence, hate-crimes, homegrown-terrorism, homophobia, humanity, intolerance, jihadism-and-love, learning-to-love, lessons-of-the-year-2016, mass-shootings, mental-health, nonviolence, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, orlando-florida-shooting, orlando-massacre, poster-art, postered-poetics-by-aberjhani, remembering-sandy-hook, sanity-insanity, self-hatred, spirituality, teaching-diversity, teaching-muliticulturalism, terrorism, we-are-orlando, wearecharleston, weareorlando, what-matters-is-love, xenophobia

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#10

“I’ve watched congregations devote years and years to heated arguments about whether a female missionary should be allowed to share about her ministry on a Sunday morning, whether students older than ten should have female Sunday school teachers, whether girls should be encouraged to attend seminary, whether women should be permitted to collect the offering or write the church newsletter or make an announcement . . . all while thirty thousand children die every day from preventable disease. If that’s not an adventure in missing the point, I don’t know what is.”
― Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood

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#11

“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: ache, death, dumbledore, harry-potter, hurt, life, pain

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#12

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: death, love

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#13

“Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.”
― Kelly Sue DeConnick, Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine

tags: burden, compulsion, consequences, free-will

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#14

“When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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#15

“We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: agape-love, citizenship, democracy, diversity, generation-z, millennials, multiculturalism, political-elections, spiritual-philosophy, voting-rights

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#16

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, advocacy, protest

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#17

“God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me is that my brokenness is not the final word ... it's that God makes beautiful things out of even my own shit. Grace isn't about God creating humans and flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us grace - like saying, "Oh, it's OK, I'll be the good guy and forgive you." It's God saying, "I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

tags: forgiveness, god, grace, new, religion, shit, sin

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#18

“It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

tags: african-american-men, darren-hunt, demographics-of-united-states, eric-garner, human-rights-day, humanity, kajieme-powell, killing-of-black-men-in-america, mass-incarceration, michael-brown, post-racial-america, prison-reform, race-and-racism-in-america, race-relations, racial-profiling, tamir-rice, trayvon-martin, troy-anthony-davis

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#19

“Jesus’ warning to Revelation’s churches—and to ours—is that if we do not repent, he will remove us from God’s presence, fight us with a sword, cause us to suffer intensely, and spit us out of his mouth.7 No small words. Jesus is prepping for a fight—and it’s with his own people. Like the prophets of old, God’s words of judgment are directed first and foremost at the “insiders,” not at the outsiders.”
― Joshua Ryan Butler, The Skeletons in God's Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War

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#20

“Yet in his encounter with Jesus, something dramatic happens: he humbles himself before Jesus, recognizes Jesus’ authority as greater than his own and asks Jesus to heal his servant. Jesus responds with amazement, “I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.”5 This must have come as quite a shock to Jesus’ audience. Within the people of God, the community that carried God’s name in the world, Jesus has not found such great faith as he has found here in this outsider—a Roman centurion identified with the powers and structures of Gentile imperial domination that God has vowed to demolish. Jesus finds faith in unexpected places.”
― Joshua Ryan Butler, The Skeletons in God's Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War

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#21

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: fail, interruption, life, overcome, problem

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