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No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#compassion #courage #faith #healing #hope

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#finds #good #his #into #music

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#fear #guides #i #just #know

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#deep #express #feel #government #i

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. ↗

— John Lawson

#easy #inhabitants #life #live #pleasant

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#none #protected #safe #unless

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#adore #amendment #come #comes #court

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#business #called #gamble #game #good

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#crops #depreciate #favor #freedom #ground

The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#honesty #kindness #beauty