Inspirational Quotes

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"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." 

RUMI

"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future." NELSON MANDELA

« The very flower of the spirit of man is his capacity for love. Love is not only the strongest cohesive power in society, it is the only permanent amalgamator, the only possible force which can produce unity among people and thus by unity produce order and an atmosphere in which life can function at its highest and best. » 

Rúhíyyih Rabbani (From "Prescription for Living", 1950) 

"Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. And how can we fight for liberty if we are not free in our own minds? How can we ask others to sacrifice if we are not ready to do so? (...) Only in true surrender to the interest of all can we reach that strength and independence, that unity of purpose, that equity of judgment which are necessary if we are to measure up to our duty to the future, as men of a generation to whom the chance was given to build in time a world of peace.“ 

Dag Hammarskjöld (2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations)

I sometimes forget that
I was created for joy
My mind is too busy
My heart is too heavy
Heavy for me to remember
that I have been
called to dance
the sacred dance for life
I was created to smile
to love
to be lifted up
and lift others up
O sacred one
Untangle  my feet
from all that ensnares
Free my soul
That we might
Dance
and that our dancing
might be contagious.

HAFIZ

"Love and Compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive". 

HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

"Unity is our strength and diversity is our power". 

KAMALA HARRIS (also NANCY PELOSI)

"We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.” 

JO COX 

"Some persons, not indisposed to act fairly towards (...), are of opinion that it is inexpedient and unnecessary to revive or make known the history of the past. Concessions that are not acknowledged reversals of an evil policy are acts of impatience, not of justice and convey by the manner of their bestowal a charge of unreasonable agitation." 

W. A .O'CONOR

"Together and united, we are unstoppable." 

GRETA THUNBERG

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 "People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love." 

CLAUDE MONET

To walk where there is no path,

To breathe where there is no air,

To see where there is no light-

This is Faith.

To cry out in the silence,

The silence of the night,

And hearing no echo believe

And believe again and again

This is Faith.

To hold pebbles and see jewels

To raise sticks and see forests

To smile with weeping eyes

This is Faith.

To Say: ‘God, I believe’ when others deny,

‘I hear’ when there is no answer,

‘I see’ though naught is seen-

This is Faith.

And the fierce love in the heart,

The savage love that cries Hidden

Thou art yet there!

Veil thy face and mute thy tongue

Yet I see and hear Thee, Love,

Beat me down to the bare earth,

Yet I rise and love Thee, Love!

This is Faith.

Rúhíyyih Rabbani 

(Poem put into music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPSaN3oE5x8)