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“Mijo, values are what you live by and principles are what you stand on.”
― Leadership Lessons From Mom
― Leadership Lessons From Mom
“But there was definitely something going on. Helen had agreed. With Harry and Sly taking off before they even ate dinner that night before, there had to be. I’m glad I have Joanie and the others. I need the support, and the calming influence. They are just the ones to give me peace.
Just as she was about to drift off with that comforting thought, the front door flew open and Joan burst in breathless.
“Annie!” she said, turning to her. “I think that Nazi guy is right here in town!”
― Glorious Christmas
Just as she was about to drift off with that comforting thought, the front door flew open and Joan burst in breathless.
“Annie!” she said, turning to her. “I think that Nazi guy is right here in town!”
― Glorious Christmas
“No sound pervades the space. Her footsteps create the only life in the emptiness. She walks through to the bedroom. His body lies on the bed, a single tiny drop of dried blood on his left temple.”
― Olivia Streete and the Parisian Contract
― Olivia Streete and the Parisian Contract
“Emotional detachment from the plight of others — easily achieved by simply looking the other way — always favoured the perpetrators rather than the victims who were reduced to being inconsequential nonentities; were persecuted and denied legal and human rights; were starving, sick, and dying; were victims of Apartheid policies with racial segregations inclusive of political and economic discrimination; were harassed, internally displaced, or forcibly deported; were imprisoned, tortured, or simply “disappeared”; were enslaved, exploited, or trafficked; and were ultimately the victims of mindless massacres that defied the comprehension of anyone even remotely humane.”
― THE GRIM REAPER
― THE GRIM REAPER
“If we remain positive and accept what is, if we tend to pay attention to the beauty of the practice but not examine the insides, we will be less likely to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt, and we will forgo the potential beauty of our birth culture, and if we forgo the potential of our birth culture, it's harder to see the beauty within ourselves.”
― Adoption Stories
― Adoption Stories
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