"A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended."

-- Jose Saramago

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“I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.”

Source : "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.
“In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”
“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.”
“I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.”
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
“The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.”
“You are saved, not because of what you do, but because of what Christ did. And you are special, not because of what you do, but because of whose you are. And you are his. And because we are his, let's forget the shortcuts and stay on the main road. He knows the way. He drew the map. He knows the way home.”
“Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.”

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