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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: bigotry, travel

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“You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don’t. They never can. There is no perfect. There’s just different. But different can be wonderful.”
― Sarah Jio, Morning Glory

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“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials

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“Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

tags: education, educational-quotes, head-and-heart, learning, learning-quotes, nest, out-of-the-nest, students, teacher, teacher-quotes, teachers, teachers-day, wings

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“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: animals, anna, anna-sewell, black-beauty, kindness, love, quote, religion, sewell

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