“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.”
Source: We Are Water
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