"In the end, the most important thing is……" — Jean Vanier
"In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts."
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80 Quotes by Jean Vanier
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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…
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the…
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So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite…
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Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren…
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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…
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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…
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I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers…
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In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each…
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We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel…
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More Confidence Quotes
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
— Aristotle
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…
— Jane Austen
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
— Lauren Bacall
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When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It…
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
— Richard Bach
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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