Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity.
04285 – Inferiority vs. Inhumanity
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04144 – Life is Important
You read something that you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would...
04129 – Deal with…!
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
03976 – The Children are Ours!
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of mortality.
03803 – Mirroring and Magnifying Each Other’s Light
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love--whether we call it friendship or family or romance--is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Lifesaving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude...
03711 – How to be REALLY Despicable
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.
03563 – Demand
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
03556 – Talent is Insignificant
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.
03376 – When Victims Articulate the Situation
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
03336 – Poverty is Expensive!
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.