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    Dan Pearce
    “My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions have made you uncomfortable. Somebody who practices a different religion than you do. Somebody who has been lost to addiction. Somebody with a criminal past. Somebody who dresses “below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.

    Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.

    Reach your arm out and put it around them.

    And then, tell them they’re all right. Tell them they have a friend. Tell them you love them.

    If you or I wanna make a change in this world, that’s where we’re gonna be able to do it. That’s where we’ll start.

    Every. Single. Time.”
    ― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
    tags: bigotry, charity, christianity, happiness, hate, hatred, homosexuality, judgment, judgmental-people, kindness, love
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Mark Millar
    “Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.”
    ― Mark Millar, Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event
    tags: betrayal, civil-war, daredevil, iron-man, judas, marvel, religious
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  • #4
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: deceit, honesty, lies, lying
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    Ouida
    “Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
    ― Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
    tags: consideration, selfishness
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, integrity, lying, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, trust
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    Mandy Hale
    “So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!”
    ― Mandy Hale
    tags: accepting-yourself, being-different, being-yourself, conformity, different, fitting-in, herd, loving-yourself, nerd, not-fitting-in, standing-out, unique, uniqueness, weird, weirdness
    358 likes

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  • #8
    “Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.

    [as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]”
    ― Paul McHugh
    tags: betterment, fitting-in, people, world
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: difference, differences, droids, fitting-in, generic, generic-people, ignorance, life, life-and-living, living, living-inside-a-box, monotonous, people, societies, society, weird, weirdness
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: affection, communication, heartwarming, human-connections, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, relationships
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  • #11
    “You cannot love God without loving people”
    ― Sunday Adelaja
    tags: loving-god, loving-others
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  • #12
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
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    Wendell Berry
    “The Peace of Wild Things

    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
    ― Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
    tags: nature, peace, poetry
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  • #14
    Whitney Otto
    “No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.”
    ― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
    tags: betrayal, family, fighting
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