"We work for peace every time we exercise……" — Jean Vanier
"We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love."
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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 Authentic Quotes
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
— Allan Bloom
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look…
— Alan Alda
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any…
— Albert Camus
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting…
— Nick Cave
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going…
— Chris Christie
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
— Pamela Anderson
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