Role model

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Children have more need of models than critics.

Joseph Joubert

Laughter

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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Time

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Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Love

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Love is an irresistible desire

to be irresistibly desired.

Rober Frost

Seeing

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Wherever you go, what matters less is what you are looking at, but how you have committed to see.

Youngme Moon, Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

One chance in life

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When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.

Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Healing

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... the healing
of all our wounds
is forgiveness
that permits a promise
of our return
at the end.

Alice Walker, Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

Dreams of Hope

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I know men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

The single greatest failure

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The single greatest failure of the Canadian experiment, so far, has been our inability to normalize – that is, to internalize consciously – the First Nations as the senior founding pillar of our civilization.

John Ralston Saul, A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada

Reflection of the Divine

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If a grain of sand can become a reflection of the divine, just think what can happen to the human being.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama