Category: character
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More peace of mind
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace,” the Dali Lama once said.
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We are in this together
“Our unity is our strength, and our diversity is our power. We reject the myth of us vs. them. We are in this together,” Kamala Harris says.
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Good, fair and just
Let us cling to hope. “The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals,” Kamala Harris once said.
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Silence the soul
“The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, savvy and yet exceedingly shy,” says Parker Palmer, the Quaker teacher. “If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is to go crashing through the woods for the creature to come out. But, if we are willing to walk quietly into…
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Tell them who you are
In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris stresses that one of her mother’s favorite sayings was: “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.”
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Speak the truth
Vice President Kamala Harris talks about truth in her autobiography The Truths We Hold. “We cannot solve our most intractable problems unless we are honest about what they are, unless we are willing to have difficult conversations and accept what facts make plain. “We need to speak truth: that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and anti-Semitism…
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Buy a lot of books
We should buy a lot of books, says Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. There are those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it, Eco says. “They simply apply the consumer mentality to books. That is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love…