Tuininga Family Quotes & Sayings

Islam is not about "we're better than you". Rather it is about "let me show you something that is better for you — Nouman Ali Khan

The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other's truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love. — Bell Hooks

It seems to me a man doesn't have to be old to do his work well. — Alexandre Dumas

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. — Daisaku Ikeda

They were photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure. — Anna Quindlen

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well. — William Nicholson

Not the way it's supposed to be. Evil is exactly that - a fundamental and troubling departure from goodness. The Bible uses the word evil to describe anything that violates God's moral will. — Randy Alcorn

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The past is obdurate. — Stephen King

But I AM sad about it. I feel the loneliness again for passing out in Trip's bed and knowing that's the closest I'll ever be to him again, for being fine with it, for being fine with never again getting what I used to want more than anything because now I have something else, someone else, I want more. — Alexis Bass