When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

Jean Vanier
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  1. We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

  2. [Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

  3. Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

  4. I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

  5. The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

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