“Life is available only in the present moment.”
― Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
― Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
“The United States cannot at once be isolationist—build a wall, kill the trade deals—and global, selectively reaping the benefits of an international economy, like lower-cost imports, cut-rate outsourced workforce, and cheap labor in our fields here at home. We have played a major part in creating the problem of what has become of Central America, and we must play a major part in solving it.”
― The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
― The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
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“You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”
― Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
― Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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