Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulation, from responding rather than reacting. It is about opening what has been closed, reclaiming what has been hidden, and remembering what has been forgotten.
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Related It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was. TINY TIM God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us.... DEYTH BANGER You said that you are ill... but from from what? DEYTH BANGER Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest... JOHN STUART MILL Being YOUR SELF means owning our feelings then responding to them rather than reacting. JOHN B. BEJO I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching fo... MILTON BERLE What has she done, rather than bitch, gripe and complain? GARY QUALLS 'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it. JEFF LINDSAY Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humb... KATE FLEETWOOD They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say. ANDREW BROWN Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. FRANK MOORE COLBY My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work. DEYTH BANGER What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing... EUGENE DELACROIX What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing ... EUGENE DELACROIX I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional ... RIVERS CUOMO Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to... TONI MORRISON The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been be... JOHN RUSKIN Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. B. F. SKINNER Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. B. F. SKINNER Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. SKINNER Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. SMITH & JONES It's been my understanding that the basic fallacy for any conflict has to do with our intrinsic beli... RAMANA PEMMARAJU More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. NAPOLEON HILL I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a s... MILTON BERLE I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
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CHRISTIAN BALE What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is u... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is u... KRISHNAMURTI Regarding beliefs and belief systems: We argue what and how we feel, rather than what we - actually ... T.F. HODGE Having been in the presidency from the time of Mandela to that of Zuma, I am one of the privileged f... FRANK CHIKANE Since the Industrial Revolution began, going downstream - investing in businesses that will bene... RALPH WANGER A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after... THOMAS HARDY A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after... CORRA MAY HARRIS Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. FRANZ KAFKA My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to oper... A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuit... FELIX KLEIN There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive me... KENNETH BACON The plan is to put the Aladdin on a higher plane than it has been, to alter and broaden the customer... ROBERT EARL It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the tru... SUNDAY ADELAJA If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; t... AMANDA MARTIN It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs. BRIAN PENN Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo... BRANDON SANDERSON Since Network Rail took over the nation's railway infrastructure some three years ago, maintenance h... IAN MCALLISTER I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than... MICHELLE WILLIAMS The response from the public has been better than anyone expected. MICHAEL KEANE To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the S... ERNIE FLETCHER Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather t... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation ra... NANCY GIBBS Chairman Greenspan has really been a beacon of stability. I think our sense is we'll see a bias shif... CHRIS WOLFE Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to ... ROBERT KIYOSAKI (The video) we've used in the past has been more realistic, where we were staging scenes. This time ... JASON BRUFFY Todd feels worse about what happened than anybody, ... He has been punished and served his time. WAYNE GRETZKY Earmarking has been going on since the time of George Washington. If Congress chooses to make partic... AIMEE N. STEEL Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynam... FERNANDO PESSOA For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the... SAMUEL BUTLER There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. MARIE ANTOINETTE Though his sometimes tough approach has resulted in some hard feelings leading to partisan attacks r... CHRIS CANNON There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into w... SUZANNE LAFOLLETTE There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into w... SUZANNE LAFOLLETTE He has complicated things rather than making them simpler. FRANCOIS HOLLANDE To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting t... CHRISTINA BALDWIN My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearmen... BERTOLT BRECHT There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There i... TOM LICHTENBERG Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to othe... MADAME GUIZOT Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say. WAYNE DYER What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than... MITT ROMNEY My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a b... MICK JAGGER Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. BERTRAND RUSSELL Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. BERTRAND RUSSELL It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING
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ERICA O'ROURKE I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r... STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat... TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto... R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti... MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co... TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL