Eugene Kennedy Quotes

• Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Spirit, Breathe, Mercy

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• En el momento en que una persona puede aceptarse y perdonarse a sí misma, aunque sea un poco, es cuando se vuelve hasta cierto punto amable.

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  Perdón, Perdonar, Grados

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• Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

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  Death, Disappointment, Mean

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• There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

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  Communication, Silence, Sacred

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• There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

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  Art, Cutting, Order

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• Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

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  Hurt, Trying, Doe

  Eugene Kennedy, Eugene C. Kennedy (1975). “If you really knew me, would you still like me?”, Tabor Pub.

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• ¿Puedes disfrutar de esos momentos de la vida que son totalmente sencillos.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Simple

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• The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

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  Mother, Future, Mistress

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• Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

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  Beautiful, Death, Summer

  Eugene Kennedy (1987). “On Being a Friend”, Ballantine Books

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• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

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  Movie, Games, Growth

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• La verdadera prueba de la amistad consiste en no hacer literalmente nada con la otra persona. ¿Puedes disfrutar de esos momentos de la vida que son totalmente sencillos?

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  Friendship, Real, Simple

  "The Promise of Friendship". Book by Kathy Wagoner, 2002.

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