difference

When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it__ like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear.

Every new breath and day is on opportunity to do something,a gift of life to make a difference in the world.

Some look at your strength and see an opportunity and some look at your weaknesses and see an opportunity .

If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love__he real writer wants to touch another person.

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it._ _ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.

As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter.

Gratitude for me is waking up each day, and being able to make a difference in somebody__ life.

It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

Live every moment.. in an effort to bring a positive difference to the world

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn't consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for change.

What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences?

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can__ be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal element I too recognize in love as immanent. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power. It__ an ideal that was already partly present in Plato, through the idea of the Good. It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the __lmighty-Other_, without the __reat Other_ of transcendence.

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

I think_ that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply anencounter, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity. And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In today__ world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn__ conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn__ calculated way in advance as a profitable investment, love really is a unique trust placed in chance. It takes us into key areas of the experience of what is difference and, essentially, leads to the idea that you can experience the world from the perspective of difference. In this respect it has universal implications: it is an individual experience of potential universality, and is thus central to philosophy, as Plato was the first to intuit.

Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the "leaf": the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted--but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model.