For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just...
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Catherynne M. Valente
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands...
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Haruki Murakami
What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"- to know who you are and to be that person- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities-...
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Sue Fitzmaurice
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
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Criss Jami
The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in...
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Harry G. Frankfurt
More Quotes By Peggy Noonan
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom.... Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those...
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits...
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.
Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what...
