"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are , chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

~Anonymous     Shoshone

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"My friends, how desperately do we need to be loved and to love. When Christ said that man does not live by bread alone, he spoke of a hunger. This hunger was not the hunger of the body. It was not the hunger for bread. He spoke of a hunger that begins deep down in the very depths of our being. He spoke of a need as vital as breath. He spoke of our hunger for love." ~Chief Dan George

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"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts."

~Cochise ("Like Ironweed")  Chiracahua Chief

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"Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever."

~Conestoga Proverb

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"It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace." ~Shenandoah Proverb

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"Beauty before me    

       Behind me    

             Below me   

                    Above me  

                          All around me    

                               In beauty, I have spoken." ~Annie Kahn  Navajo