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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
– Jostein Gaarder

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  3. Was Jesus a christian? – Jostein Gaarder
  4. I didn’t feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin. – Jostein Gaarder
  5. If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can’t ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. – Jostein Gaarder
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  8. It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it. – Jostein Gaarder
  9. To justify one’s actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult. – Shubha Vilas
  10. by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past – William Hardy McNeill
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  13. Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return. – Gretchen Rubin
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  23. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition. – Jeremy Holmes
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  27. How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
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  40. Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. – Bren Brown

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