"People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard."

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Sue Monk Kidd

#People Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?”

Source : "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.
“Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.”
“Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.”
“May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?”
“I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.”

Source : "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2" by Andy Tanenbaum, www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.
“The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.”

Source : "Jay Kay: ‘Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy’". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.
“Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.”
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise. However, it has needed one: which is about the severest criticism our civilization could have.”

Source : "Mrs. Miniver".

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