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643 Speaker Quotes

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

Cry Attention Move Joy
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It's a great time to be alive.

It's Great Time Alive
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Nothing Heals People Cry
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

Angriest Daughter Earth Most
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

Whistle Waiting Blown Some ways
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Lives Moments Look Spiritually
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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

Presents Disappointments Life Sense
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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

Raised Religious Training Influence
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I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

Calmer Older Capable Feeling
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

Love Serve Everyone Bring
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

Think Jedus Divine Love
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I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Heard Greatest Cross Carry
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Write Gift God Help
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Mothers Listen Respond Wisdom
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Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

Mother's day Celebrates Value Women
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If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Parents Affect Life Child
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

Deep Understanding Opinion Read
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Joy is the best makeup.

Joy Best Makeup
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Forgiveness Giving up Hope Better past
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

You Practice Right Kind
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Not forgiving Like Drinking Waiting
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Good Marriage People Feel
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Good Do Uncomffortable things Weight
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Remember Places Heart Exist
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility

God Something Wonderful Hardship
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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue
Man Born Broken Lives
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Almost Good Writing Begins
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The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

Difference You God Doesn't
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We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

We Know Die Important
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Almost Everything Work again Unplug
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Gratitude Understanding Secret Joy
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Word Image God Distortion
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The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Day Follow Someone Cease
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You cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

You See Outside Fail
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Silence Not Absence Sound
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.

Wisdom Grow Proportion Awareness
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
Wisdom Comes Learn Nothing
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Don’t ask the world to change — you change first.
Don't Ask World Change
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Eternal means timeless — no time.

Eternal Means Timeless
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The final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept ‘God’.

Final Barrier Attaining God
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Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.

Nobody Attained Pinnacle Truth
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Good Teacher Practice Bad
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

You Condemned Never Need
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Love is not something you have; love is something that has you

Love Something You Have
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

Wisdom Learned Cannot Taught
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Problems only exist in the human mind.

Problems Exist Human Mind
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

Best Life Cannot Willed
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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Thought Organize World So well
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

Whatever Truly Alive Die
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

When You See Wise
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