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Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.
Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong
He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.
Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)
Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.
To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.
To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.
Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.
[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right
A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
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.
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.
The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.
Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.
When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.
People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.
True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.
A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.
The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.
Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.
At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.
Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.
Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.