One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

Chinese Proverb

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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Coretta Scott King

The experience of many of us is not that 'insistence on sameness' jumps out unbidden and unwanted and makes our lives hard, but that 'insistence on sameness' is actually a way of adapting to a confusing and chaotic environment.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

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