"Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation."

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Source : P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.60, Macmillan

P. M. Forni

#Hurt Quotes #Might Quotes #Causes Quotes

“They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good.”

Source : Interview, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.
“You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.”
“Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.”
“God, it's nice to be treated like a man.”
“OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.”
“For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.”

Source : Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage
“Spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you could be rewarded with a room full of your peers or your community who will listen.”
“Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.”

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