Quotes of Desmond Tutu

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If you can find it in yourself to forgive, then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator.

- Desmond Tutu

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“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ”

- TorronLee Dewar

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green