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Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent?
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Simone Campbell

Roman Catholic sister; lobbyist and author

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the harder part is the living in relationship, the living it out, the consistently trying to do what I call deep listening, listening to the needs around me, listening to what I'm — where we're being nudged and drawn, listening to people's stories, listening to the murmurs inside of me.

Krista Tippett, On Being with Krista Tippett, 10 September 0400 source ↗

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Abraham Verghese Physician and writer; professor at Stanford University
they are much more ready to put their family and their children first in a way that I regret that I didn't do.
Recorded Mr. Feineh, On Being with Krista Tippett, Stanford University audience question, 1554336000 source ↗
Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993
it's not profound regret. It's just a wiping up of tiny, little messes that you didn't recognize as a mess when they were going on
Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, 10 September 0800 source ↗
Andrew Young Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
It was only with her help that I did everything. The tragedy was that after 40 years of marriage she died of cancer. I say that if Martin and I had not married the little country girls we married from Alabama, you never would have heard our names.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 835920000 source ↗
John Wooden Basketball coach at UCLA, 1948-1975; winner of ten NCAA championships
They become almost like your children. Next to your own flesh and blood, you get very close to them. Their joys are your joys, their sorrows are your sorrows and that goes on forever. It doesn't end when they leave your supervision. That's with you forever.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 972691200 source ↗

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