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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Teachers: 101 Stories about How You Make a Difference

by Amy Newmark (Goodreads Author)

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May 20, 2017 05:04AM

“No one ever comes back from the dead., no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is ever asked when he wishes to enter life, no one is ever asked when he wishes to leave.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

tags: death, life, weeping

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“When she enters the room she immediately shuts the window and draws the shade with a quick, hard pull. Then she throws herself down on the bed, and the sobbing starts all over again. It's as if she can't sob when she's not in a lying position - either that or she has to start sobbing the moment she lies down.”
― Stig Dagerman, Sleet: Selected Stories

tags: crying, depression, sadness, sobbing, tears, weeping

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“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: agape-love, angel-art, anti-racism, antiracism, appropriate-application, coexistence, common-ground, cultural-boundaries, cultural-demographics, cultural-differences, cultural-heritage, cultural-literacy, cultural-relativism, demographics, diversity, ending-violent-jihad, ending-war, faith-in-humanity, faith-in-love, human-beings, human-condition, humanity, ideologies, ideology, ideology-religion-war-compromise, interfaith-dialogue, joy, joy-of-life, laughter, love-for-humanity, multiculturalism, multiculturalismo, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, peacism, philosophy-for-millennials, race-relations, racial-division, racial-identity, social-philosophy, sociological-imagination, spiritual-philosophy, universal, universal-love, universal-truths, universality, waging-peace, weeping

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“Some say the ocean roars,
I hear it ever weeping.
Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.
Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.”
― Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness

tags: ocean, pain, roars, weep, weeping

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“When dark times bring their gloom, bring your own sunshine.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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