"If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives."

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Source : Greg Boyle (2011). “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Greg Boyle

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“There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.”
“This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.”
“I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.”
“Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.”
“The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.”
“I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.”
“Can't one human being not like another human being? Can't we all just not get along?”
“Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.”

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