Quotes Rop-Rz
"Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.
Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or
reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however,
calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being."
-- Marshall Rosenberg
"Perfectionist=person afraid to make the same mistake once."
-- Marshall Rosenberg
"The only thing that really matters at this moment is how you and I are going
to treat each other." -- Marshall Rosenberg
"A fish doesn't know it's in water." �- Marshall Rosenberg
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man
who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of
losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and
holds its peace in impotence." -- Joseph Roux
"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices."
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and
think, 'Well, that's not going to happen'." -- Rita Rudner
"Two lovers do not actually meet, they are in each other all along." -- Rumi
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much." -- Donald H. Rumsfeld
"We're born naked, from there it's all drag." -- RuPaul
"Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before
me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone
everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am
anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had
not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I,' every
one of the now-six-hudred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I
repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world."
-- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed
entirely of lost airline luggage." -- Mark Russell
"For years, Canada has been the place to go for dodging the draft, buying cheap
prescription drugs -- and now for same-sex marriages. Americans up there just
to go fishing probably arouse suspicion." -- Mark Russell
"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity
as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
-- Bayard Rustin
"Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man, but
around the social situation -- to take power from those who misuse it -- at
which point they become human, too." -- Bayard Rustin
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