"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"

-- Bell Hooks

#Forgiveness Quotes #Believe Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. Â To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. Â A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.”

Source : "Father and Son".
“Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.”
“I haven't actually studied acting at all.”

Source : "Kat Dennings Talks 2 BROKE GIRLS, RENEE and the THOR Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.
“London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.”
“You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.”

Source : Richard N. Haass (1999). “The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization”, p.117, Brookings Institution Press
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”
“As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.”
“There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.”

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