mary
05-07-2007, 07:21 PM
I found these quotes on the old "Advocate Web" site and I thought some of them might be helpful here, especially this month when so many of us are hurting. There are more on the site...
"Hope is like a bird that senses dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark."
Author unknown
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Our past is not our potential."
Unknown
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
General Schwarzkopf
"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."
Rebecca Falls
"Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again."
Jack Kornfield, "Buddha's Little Instruction Book"
"Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are."
King Solomon, 635-577 BC
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr
"Hope is like a bird that senses dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark."
Author unknown
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Our past is not our potential."
Unknown
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
General Schwarzkopf
"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."
Rebecca Falls
"Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again."
Jack Kornfield, "Buddha's Little Instruction Book"
"Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are."
King Solomon, 635-577 BC
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr