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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.
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The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
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Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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