“Forget injuries. Never forget kindness.”
“Don’t just tell children to seek gentleness and greatness, because they won’t understand what these words could mean. Instead, show them the lives of gentle and great people, and narrate their noble deeds. Children will immediately be carried by a longing for the same things, or for even better ones.”
“Sometimes when I try to understand a person’s motives I play a little game. I assume the worst. What’s the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do?”
“ANOTHER THING ABOUT SNOWFLAKES
They are not just soft.
When they begin to melt, they
harden into sleet.”
Source: Miles Morales Suspended
“Spreading scripture is not faithwork,
Mumbling facts is not sciencework.
True faith is kindness,
True science is service.
It takes a human to do lifework!”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Kral Fakir (Servant King Sonnet)
İnsanı seven herkes resul,
Yardım eden herkes kraldır.
Bencil servet hayvanlara mübarek,
İnsan ben, kimliğim kral fakir.
Every human who loves a human is apostle,
Every human who helps a human is king.
Animals may feast on selfish luxury,
As for me, I am a servant king.
King is the servant,
Servant is king.
Being is the harvest,
Harvest is the being.
Life lived for self is goods,
Life lived for others is gift.
Time spent on self is product,
Time spent on others is present.
You can spend thousands on the shallow,
Still it won't be enough to fill their eyes.
Spend a single wise cent on someone in need,
It'll fill their heart with new vigor of life.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“You can spend thousands on the shallow,
Still it won't be enough to fill their eyes.
Spend a single wise cent on someone in need,
It'll fill their heart with new vigor of life.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Eternally place on hold
the voice that justifies
stories in your mind about inadequacy.
Make love with the voice
that attributes all the logic under the sun
as to why you are adequate.
Hold on to it, allow it to whisper sweetness in your ear.
Abide with it, believe it.
Discontinue ripping yourself to shreds.
Quit admitting blasphemous utterances
about yourself in your dwelling.”
Source: The Voice Of Adequacy: Silencing Self-Doubt, Embracing Self-Love
“I took in his face. He was neither White nor Native, something outside the two major circles who moved in that space. He was the first person I was sure had seen me as just a person during that whole trip.”
Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
“Why should the kindness of strangers be so unnerving?”
Source: Perfect Happiness