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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
― George Carlin

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver

“I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.”
― Frank Warren

“Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it”
― Bono

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”
― Gene Roddenberry

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
― Tony Robbins

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”
― Tony Robbins

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
― Tony Robbins

“The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.”
― Tony Robbins

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
― Tony Robbins

“Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional.”
― Tony Robbins

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
― Tony Robbins

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
― Tony Robbins

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge

“The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ”
― Tony Robbins

“It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”
― Tony Robbins

“People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”
― Tony Robbins

“You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.”
― Tony Robbins

“The past does not equal the future.”
― Tony Robbins

“How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?”
― Tony Robbins

“Success is buried on the other side of rejection.”
― Tony Robbins

“Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be”
― Tony Robbins

“You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.”
― Tony Robbins

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns