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“You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.”
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“The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
― The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
― The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
“Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.”
― Nothing Special
― Nothing Special
“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”
― Teaching Children to Love: 80 Games & Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in Unbalanced Times
― Teaching Children to Love: 80 Games & Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in Unbalanced Times
“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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