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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-08-2023
“Each person is his own judge.” Shawnee
“With all things and in all things, we are relatives.” Sioux
“The one who tells the stories rules the world.” Hopi
Native American proverb
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 31-08-2023
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” Sioux
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.”
Native American proverb
“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Desmond Tutu
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-09-2023
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
“Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries a sorrow and a struggle. Recognise that we all share a fundamental humanity.”
"We are made to exist in a delicate network of interdependence. We are sisters and brothers, whether we like it or not. To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity. And those who shred the web of interconnectedness cannot escape the consequences of their actions."
“We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.”
Desmond Tutu
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-09-2023
“We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.”
“Forgiving is not forgetting; it's actually remembering – remembering and not using your right to hit back. It's a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you don't want to repeat what happened.”
“In our own ways, we are all broken. Out of that brokenness, we hurt others. Forgiveness is the journey we take toward healing the broken parts. It is how we become whole again.”
Desmond Tutu
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-09-2023
Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we’ve told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.”
“Forgiveness is nothing less than the way we heal the world. We heal the world by healing each and every one of our hearts. The process is simple, but it is not easy.”
“We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realise our need of one another.”
Desmond Tutu
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-09-2023
People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition.”
“It was relatively easy, we now realise, to categorise countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.”
“Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible. We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another – when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship – our suffering begins to transform.”
Desmond Tutu
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-09-2023
“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.”
“Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely. But if you have an open heart and are filled with trust and friendship, even if you are physically alone, even living a hermit’s life, you will never feel lonely.”
“We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.”
Desmond Tutu
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-09-2023
“Discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.”
Desmond Tutu
“Men are afraid women will laugh at them....women are afraid men will kill them.”
“Men often ask me 'why are your female characters so paranoid?' Its not paranoia. Its recognition of their situation.”
Margaret Atwood
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Kenj - 06-09-2023
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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-09-2023
“Men are afraid women will laugh at them....women are afraid men will kill them.”
“I hope that people will come to realise that there is ony one 'race' – the human race - & that we are all members of it.”
“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader & a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
Margaret Atwood
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-09-2023
“Women will suffer most from climate change, as lawlessness triggered by disasters & food shortages make them vulnerable to rape & other violence.”
“I don't even call it climate change, I call it the “everything change.” Its the change of everything.”
“In time girls will be able to grow up believing that no avenues are closed to them simply because they are girls.”
Margaret Atwood
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-09-2023
“We are all leaves of one tree. We are all waves of one sea.”
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Kenj - 09-09-2023
"Fite Illiterisy" On the wall of my lawyers office in Auckland in late 60's
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-09-2023
(09-09-2023, 11:55 AM)Kenj Wrote: "Fite Illiterisy" On the wall of my lawyers office in Auckland in late 60's
Love that!
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-09-2023
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realise.”
“Life is a miracle, & being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-09-2023
“Because you are alive,everything is possible.”
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
“Many people think excitement is happiness...but when you are excited, you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-09-2023
“If in our daily life we can be peaceful & happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognise: a blue sky, white clouds,green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-09-2023
“There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, & they become better & better Christians all the time.”
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
“Smile, breathe & go slowly.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-09-2023
“If you love someone, but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”
“Birth is okay & death is okay; if we know that they are only concepts in our minds. Reality transcends both birth & death.”
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - R2x1 - 14-09-2023
(14-09-2023, 11:35 AM)Lilith7 Wrote: “If you love someone, but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”
“Birth is okay & death is okay; if we know that they are only concepts in our minds. Reality transcends both birth & death.”
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Birth is okay & death is okay; but between is the tricky bit . . .
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“My actions are my only true belongings”, your services are not required.