Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Bell Hooks
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.
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Darnell Lamont Walker
When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to...
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Vironika Tugaleva
Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
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Sharon Salzberg
More Quotes By Donavan Nelson Butler
You have a nearly a 0% chance of affecting change in others attitudes, behaviors, and skullduggery. However, you have a 100% chance of affecting your own attitude, behavior, resiliency, and reaction to all things within your direct ability to shape the outcome.
Envision life as you're juggling 6 balls. The balls are called faith, work, family, health, friends, and integrity. But one day, you realize that work is a rubber ball. If dropped, it will bounce back. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The other 5 balls faith, family, health, friends,...
In all trust there is a possibility of betrayal, but without trust there is no friendship, closeness, or the emotional bonds that give us so much happiness when the time is right for it. Trust is a hardening agent to all relationships as Carbon is...
We are one people until you decide we are one person in the churning sea of humanity.
You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.
