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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we ho

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? – Bell Hooks

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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. – Bell Hooks

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. – Bell Hooks

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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. – Elbert Hubbard

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The things the writers have me doing on Suburgatory are insane. I think they think its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. – Cheryl Hines

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Forgive. It doesn’t erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. – George MacDonald

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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. – Dalai Lama

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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power. – James Cash Penney

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley

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