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You react with love when there is hatred, slowness when there is drivenness, softness when there is strength, flexibility where there is rigidity, humility when there is self-centeredness, and warmth when there is frigidity. – JOHN MCGEE

Somewhere I once wrote that while illnesses are man’s curse, handicaps (stigmas attached to illnesses) are his invention. – BURTON BLATT

Community is about the common life that is lived in such a way that the unique creativity of each person is a contribution to the other. – JOHN MCKNIGHT

Warmth is what fills the cold space between you and the other.  It is the gift we bring to those who are troubled.  If we must be where the person is at, we must also be warm as we enter […]

Are we as good as we like to think we are…? – BURTON BLATT

A person is defined by the stories he tells about himself as well as the stories that are told about him. – BURTON BLATT

‘It is our policy to reduce dependency on human services by increasing interdependence in community life through a focus on the gifts and capacities of people who have been excluded from community life because of their labels’ – JOHN MCKNIGHT

Caregivers make big mistake by looking at what people know or should know instead of what they feel.  If life were just a matter of knowing, our world would be free of injustice, unkindness, and prejudice. – JOHN MCGEE

I ask you to change humanity by changing yourself…I ask you to think of yourself, not society, and how you must evolve, not what civilization must endure.   – BURTON BLATT

[T]he greatest ‘service’ our society provides is the opportunity to express our unique capacities, to have a decent income, and to join with our fellow citizens in creating productive communities. – JOHN MCKNIGHT