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My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.
– Sherman Alexie

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  1. Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all. – Ray A Davis
  2. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
  3. Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
  4. The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. – Sherman Alexie
  5. I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
  6. If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
  7. Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. — Sherman Alexie – Anita Silvey
  8. Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
  9. There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107) – Sherman Alexie
  10. Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
  11. I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
  12. They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
  13. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
  14. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
  15. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
  16. He was going to punish me now. He couldn’t beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words. – Sherman Alexie
  17. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
  18. An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
  19. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn’t actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false. – Sherman Alexie
  20. You’re always making up stuff from the past,- she said. -œAnd the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened. – Sherman Alexie
  21. I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
  22. They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. – Sherman Alexie
  23. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
  24. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
  25. Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
  26. Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. – Sherman Alexie
  27. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
  28. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day. – Steve Goodier
  29. The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share. – Debasish Mridha
  30. Supposedly, guys think about sex every eight seconds. If that’s true, how can they talk to their grandmothers? – Jody Gehrman
  31. As grandmothers used to say, ‘Better to pay the grocer than the doctor – Michael Pollan
  32. I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something. – Mary E Pearson
  33. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. – Wendell Berry
  34. We call a story about love a love story. We call a poem about love a love poem. Well then, my dear, aren’t our lives love lives? – Kamand Kojouri
  35. Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness. – Gary Rohrmayer
  36. An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us. – Vironika Tugaleva
  37. The act of extending forgiveness and asking for forgiveness must come from our heart. – Sara Dormon
  38. I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied! – John Masefield
  39. Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don’t call it madness. – Megan Shepherd
  40. Act with God’s compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong. – Shannon L Alder

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