Start with Hello Quotes

“You are my neighbor. I commit to seeing your humanity first then ask questions later. You are my neighbor and I am here to care for you in ways are tangible and loud.”
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“We don't have to give oxygen to anything that harms us.”
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“We are not meant to be everyone's teacher, conscience, priest, counselor”
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“Will we be an observer? Or a participant?”
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“There's a massive difference between loving people in theory and loving them in the moment.”
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“We can't claim to love what we don't know.”
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“Friendship doesn't have to be perfect or well-planned. It just has to be sincere.”
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“What we really learned was that the greatest cost of love is pain.”
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“After all, hospitality is just a fancy word for “hanging out.”
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“Our dining room is living proof that eating together unites what the world tries to separate.”
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“It is in the risks we take anyway, along with the inevitable minidisasters, that we reveal ourselves exactly human enough.”
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“Isn't it fascinating that while we crave authenticity and the grit of life, the thing that so often holds us back is our fear of personal failure? . . . Maybe perfection isn't a requirement for belonging, after all.”
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“Affection is infectious. In the words of philosopher Simone Weil, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
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“Creating a rhythm of attentiveness awakens us to possibility and tunes our hearts to the key of wonder. The sky belongs to everyone—the longest-living art installation.”
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“It's not unrealistic to want the easier connection of childhood in the thick of adulthood. . . . It's remembering what we've forgotten.”
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“I've learned almost everything is some shade of beautiful if viewed from the right angle.”
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“[W]e discover we want the same things: to trust and be trusted, to be seen and believed, to be generous.”
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“[A] shy introvert yet desparate to be known. I catch a glimpse of what life could look if we all took one step closer to each other, unbothered by our differences.”
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“Stillness is a brilliant teacher.”
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“Curiosity lights our way to compassion.”
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“You are my neighbor. I commit to seeing your humanity first then ask questions laer. You are my neighbor and I am here to care for you in ways are tangible and loud.”
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“I could be wrong,' 'Have you thought about it from this perspective?,' 'I don't know,' 'Hmmm, tell me more.”
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“We are one people, one family, one house and we must keep this house together. Celebrate our diversity. Preserve our diversity. All of us must be included.”
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“If I allowed myself to operate from a 'mine first' mentality--my family, my home, my preferred social cliques at the end of the day we collapse in a heap of tortilla chips and fleece exhausted by the daily grind with nothing left to give.”
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“Our attention is spent one, small, seemingly mundane choice at a time... Ensure that your tiny choices reflect our grand ambitions for how people experience you and ho w you experience the world. It's all you've really got.”
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