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- To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
- Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that…
- We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame…
- Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that…
- The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is…
- How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for…
- We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and…
- Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only…
- Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it…
- Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till…
- While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only…
- Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form…
- In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.…
- It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic…
- When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of…
- In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you…
- we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and…
- All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle