We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic presence – as a changeable, interactive thing?
If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.
And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.
This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.
I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.
I can wash dishes.
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The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair.
Steve MaraboliTags: life inspirational delusion fair unfair
Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed."
"I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?"
"They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.
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Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair.
Fernán CaballeroTags: inspirational human fair generousity
I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.
William GiraldiTags: words language definition fairness fair
It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.
C.J. RedwineTags: life hope perseverance defiance fair giving-up
Words to invoke peace
Jay WoodmanTags: freedom peace balance awareness sing fair create sacred fariness
Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
Bill WillinghamTags: work forgiveness good murderers redemption fair lives forgive restoration earn restore forgiven
Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.
Taylor NadeauTags: love loss comfort fair edwin-hubble
Life has very little even ground.
J.D. RobbTags: life fairness fair even even-ground
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