"Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things.……" — Jean Vanier
"Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness."
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80 Quotes by Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier has 80 quotes on this site.
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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 Extraordinary Quotes
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
— David Attenborough
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you…
— David Attenborough
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because…
— David Bailey
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
— Martha Beck
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Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
— Carol Bellamy
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A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's…
— Andrea Bocelli
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
— Wade Boggs
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