Desmond Tutu Quotes About Inspirational
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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