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    Pema Chödrön
    “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
    tags: compassion
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    Pema Chödrön
    “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
    ― Pema Chodron
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
    tags: discworld
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    Terry Pratchett
    “This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And what do you really do?" asked Tiffany.

    The thin witch hesitated for a moment, and then: "We look to ... the edges," said Mistress Weatherwax. "There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
    tags: mistress-weatherwax, tiffany-aching
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    Dr. Seuss
    “In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Sarah Vowell
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
    tags: brainy-quotes, discrimination, fundamentalism, fundamentalists, gay, gay-and-lesbian, gay-marriage, gay-rights, gender-based-discrimination, gender-based-violence, gender-identity, gender-stereotypes, homophobia, homosexual, homosexuality, homosexuality-in-the-bible, homosexuality-is-a-sin, homosexuality-quotes, homosexualität, homosexuals, human-nature, humanism, humanity, humanity-and-society, inspiring, lesbian, lesbians, lgbt, lgbt-advocates, lgbt-literature, lgbt-quotes, lgbt-rights, lgbtq, life, love, one-human-race, philosophy, primitive-human-behavior, primitive-human-nature, racism, religion, religious-extremism, religious-fundamentalism, same-sex-attraction, same-sex-desire, same-sex-love, same-sex-marriage, same-sex-marriages, same-sex-relationships, sex, sexism, sexual-behavior, sexual-identity, sexual-orientation, sexuality, truth, words-of-wisdom
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    Audre Lorde
    “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: education, teaching
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    Zhuangzi
    “Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.”
    ― Chuang Tzu
    tags: education, teaching
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    Jane Smiley
    “A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
    ― Jane Smiley
    tags: teaching
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    John Dewey
    “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
    ― John Dewey
    tags: education, educational-system, philosophy, teaching
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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