A Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Another Dialogue Fundamental Gift Oneself Unfolding

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Pope Benedict XVI
German - Priest
Born: April 16, 1927

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Joseph Stalin

When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.

Yasuhiko Kimura

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

Michel Foucault

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

Derek Walcott

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

Abdellah Taia

If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world. It may not look spectacular, but nobody else has the precise life that you do. It's a gift no one else can offer.

Roger Housden

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

Dalai Lama

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

God has given different gifts to different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realized that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

Fulton J. Sheen

Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

James Redfield

With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue... I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.