Dagmar Dederichs

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Right there in our child’s mind we decide everyone can only be very evil or very good. We never stop to consider that all of us are capable of doing terrible things.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“While we can all accept that bullying and abuse betray a lack or loss of respect for other human beings, there is a deeper issue: the devaluing of human life; and that in turn indicates a lack or loss of respect for the Giver of human life and dignity, God Himself. The message a bully sends is a mockery of God's handiwork, a lie that slanders God's nature and negates His love for us.”
― Frank E. Peretti, The Wounded Spirit

“There are no asterisks here. Your feelings are completely valid, you are under no obligation to pardon me, I have yet to earn it for putting you through fear.   What I am trying to say is, I know now that becoming kind is worth every single exhausting effort and sometimes it takes a thousand years.   Today, I apologised to someone I owe an ocean full of amends to.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul