Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.
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My wounds, ... It was like a cortisone to heal these wounds. I rubbed it on every night and it helped me.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
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I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
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People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.
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Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
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All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.
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At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
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I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
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When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.
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All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
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Never allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
