"As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes."

-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Teacher Quotes #Pain Quotes #Home Quotes

“I've got tooth marks on my heart.”
“My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.”
“Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.”
“People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.”
“Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.”
“To fill the human heart with compassion, mercy and universal love, which should radiate to all countries, nations and peoples of the world. To make a true religion of the heart as the ruling factor in one's life. To enable each one to love God, love all, serve all, and have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms. My goal is that of oneness. I spread the message of oneness in life and living.This is the way to peace on earth. This is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled.”
“A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lostâ€“a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.”

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