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No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they’ll take it back.
“In essence, feelings of disrespect often come when we dwell on how others are different from ourselves. We can counteract these feelings by looking for ways we are similar. Without excusing others’ behavior, we”
― Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
― Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
“An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it's the potential for failure, more than failure itself, that stops so many people from beginning anything.”
― Black Buck
― Black Buck
“As people begin to feel unsafe, they start down one of two unhealthy paths. They move either to silence (withholding meaning from the pool) or to violence (trying to force meaning in the pool).”
― Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
― Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
“Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture”
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be pollution in the rivers and toxins in the air. If enough individuals are full of supremacy and privilege in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can’t remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases. But”
― The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
― The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
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