"But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity."

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Bryan Stevenson

#Sight Quotes #Walking Away Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.”

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“Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”
“There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort - things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them - are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.”
“Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.”
“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.”
“Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.”
“Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.”
“The time is gonna fly! You better make sure you're the pilot!”

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