Peace Quotes
Action/Personal
Responsibility
Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the
world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
When
we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us,
we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice,
solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our
wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with
us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour
of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not
healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a
friend who cares. Henri Nouwen
How
wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world. Anne Frank
If
we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is
to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give
joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person
in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work,
a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret.
Start right now. Sister Chän Khöng
One
must care about a world one will never see.
Bertrand Russell, 20th-century British mathematician and philosopher
Teach
this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of
service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha
Whenever you are in doubt or when the
self becomes too much with you, try the following experiment: Recall the
face of the poorest and most helpless person you have ever seen and ask
yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be for any use to him
or to her . . . Then you will find your doubts and your self melting
away. Mohandas Gandhi
What the mind doesn't understand, it
worships or fears. Alice Walker
We must be the change we wish to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
"They
first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up- because I wasn't a
Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up- because I
wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak
up- because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn't speak up- because I was a Protestant. Then they came for
me- and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Pastor Martin Niemoeller
I
am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can
do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller