1. “Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.”
2. “To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren’t afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.”
3. “Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.”
4. “When we judge, we are pushing people away’ we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closers to others.”
5. “There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.”
6. “To show love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.”
7. “The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.”
8. “Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.”
9. “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us o welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.”
10. “Growth begins when we start to accept our weakness.”
11. “Love doesn’t mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.”
12. “All of u have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyr. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.”
13. “We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.”
14. “Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lesson to teach us.”
15. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness.”
16. “People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.”
17. “Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. leaders move away from people and into paper.”
18. “Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust an fear, love and hate.”
19. “Envy comes rom people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.”
20. “People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.”
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