We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
Mandy PatinkinRead
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
Interpretation
True love and support are essential to overcoming pain and breaking the cycle of violence.
Mandy Patinkin's quote emphasizes the importance of love and support in human relationships as a crucial means to combat suffering and violence in society. It suggests that by fostering compassion and understanding for one another, individuals can create a more peaceful world, even amidst challenges and hardships.
In practice
In a speech about community resilience, you might say, 'Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.'
We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.
No one really needs me,β he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...βI do,β I say. βI need you.β He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.
Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
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