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Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each…
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of…
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So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who…
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Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."…
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
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He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
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The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and…
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Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
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Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need.…
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I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for…
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In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom…
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We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they…
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A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according…
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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
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I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the…
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But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply…
— Jean Vanier
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Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
— Emily Giffin
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