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"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
"I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply."
"I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly."
"Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise."
"Give yourself time just to be with yourself."
"We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for."
"I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to."
"It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back."
"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging."
"I know why the caged bird sings."
"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."
"You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it."
"I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
"Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life."
"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody."
"Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity."
"I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?"
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
"There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air."
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."