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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Desmond Tutu
Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu
Inspirational, Family, God
Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Desmond Tutu
Inspirational, Peace, Ordinary Extraordinary
"Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Desmond Tutu
Inspirational, Girl, Powerful

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Desmond Tutu
Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness
"Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu
Inspirational, Leadership, Nature
As quoted in "The Christian Science Monitor", December 20, 1984.

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

Desmond Tutu
Inspirational, Graduation, Beautiful
"Desmond Tutu: 'And God Says to All of Us, You Are No Chicken; You Are an Eagle'". Desmond Tutu's commencement address at Brandeis University, www.beliefnet.com. 2000.

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