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“No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through or why they might believe a certain way. It is possible for something to be right for you and something completely opposite be right for someone else.”
― Daniel Willey

tags: another, belief, believe, correct, diversity, else, false, opposite, possibilities, possibility, possible, right, shoes, someone, trial, trials, tribulation, true, try, understand, walk, way, ways, wrong

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“In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community.”
― Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful

tags: diversity, equality, relationships

6 likes

“If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

tags: humanity-and-society, inspirational, sentiment

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“We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough.”
― sera break

tags: conformity, diversity, inner-divinity, self-respect, spirituality

39 likes

“More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

tags: diversity, ecology, farming, symbiosis

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