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“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
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“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“A dragon's heart burns fiercely, even in the face of evil.”
― Jon Hansen and the Dragon Clan of Yden
― Jon Hansen and the Dragon Clan of Yden
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
― A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
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