For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Leo Tolstoy
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls...
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Shannon L. Alder
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are...
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Sun Tzu
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Theodore Roosevelt
I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
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Donzella Michele Malone
More Quotes By Randa AbdelFattah
Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside, were it really counts ?
Your perception is riveting, Amal, " he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's...
I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone! " I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?
Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.
