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The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times.
“the most gorgeous thing on a human being. vulnerability.”
― salt.
― salt.
“A young person should be speaking out for what is fair, what is just, what is right. Speak out for those who have been left out and left behind. That is how the movement goes on.”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
“We all choose our sins, and their measure. The ones we believe will render us unforgivable, and the ones that we will wash off with a morning prayer.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“All men,” Homer wrote, “have need of the gods,” and the secular wish to banish religion from the public square is perennial but doomed—one might as well try to eliminate economics, geography, or partisanship as forces that shape our politics. The more productive task is to manage and marshal the effects of religious feeling on the broader republic.”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
“I probably always will love her,” he’d said. “But it was a tough lesson to learn, realizing that I couldn’t wait for her to decide she would love me again. It wasn’t healthy. If I fall in love again, it’ll be with a woman who loves me also—not someone who I have to convince to love me. It’s easier, I think, to love someone you know won’t love you—to chase them, knowing they won’t feel the same way—than to love someone who might love you back. To risk loving each other and losing it all.”
― Felix Ever After
― Felix Ever After
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