"Itâ€™s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?"

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David Brooks

#Helping Quotes

“My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!”
“It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.”
“To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.”
“I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.”
“I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.”
“Thereâ€™s 3 types of fans. Thereâ€™s the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that donâ€™t speak at all.”
“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?”
“I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.43, Pantheon

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