#nfl

Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#israeli-palestinian-conflict #palestine #death

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conflict #fighting #peace #revenge #trial

But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream. ↗

— J.B. Priestley

#existence #time #dreams

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#education #humane #knowledge #peace #education

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ↗

— Henry Adams

#murder #parent #student #teacher #education

Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In this moment, it is the very rationality of other humans, reason in the broad sense, understood as roughly equal to oneself in both capacity and structure, that poses such a threat ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#danger #human-nature #politics #rationality #reason

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#war #faith

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#forgiveness #love #forgiveness

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#authenticity #destiny #discovering-your-greater-calling #faith #faith-in-god

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.
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— Jarod Kintz

#family #father #influence #mother #parents