Quotes About Worth

“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
― J.K. Rowling

“It shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder–or impossible– to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating. 
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― Jarod Kintz

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
― Steve Jobs

“Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder–if not impossible–to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Be worthy love, and love will come.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I’m a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.”
― Greta Garbo

“Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.”
― John Ortberg Jr.

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”
― Lev Grossman

“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
― Vera Nazarian

“Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man’s independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”
― Ayn Rand

“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world’s eyes, you are valuable to me.”
― Stormie Omartian

“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
“It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”
― Carl Sandburg

“She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It’s just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.”
― Moderata Fonte

“The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.”
― Yukito Kishiro

“Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you’re living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?”
― Mira Grant

“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?”
― Dean Koontz

“Don’t try to write anything you can’t feel – it will be a failure – ‘echoes nothing worth”
― L.M. Montgomery

“He picked up one of Lorna’s roses and set it in my lap. “Here.” I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. “See what I mean? Thorns don’t stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them…. Cause the rose is worth it… Think what you’d miss.”
― Charles Martin

“They are but beggars that can count their worth.”
― William Shakespeare

“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.
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― Jarod Kintz

“If you think a professional is expensive, wait ’til you try an amateur.”
― Paul “Red” Adair

“Many things worth doing in the world had been declared imppossible before they were done.”
― Louis Dembitz Brandeis

“I don’t agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.”
― Hark Herald Sarmiento

“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O’Nan

“There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the world yet given to those who only want daisies. Blue diamond, don’t cry because they want glass crystals. Blue rose, don’t bleed because they see only the daisies. You were formed in the bedroom of the gods, you were conceived in the garden of the eternal!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“You are not worthless. Even if you’ve been called that your entire life.”
― Kevin Walker

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth.”
― Criss Jami

“My eyes sing with excitement– they see your Divine Worth.”
― Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
― Brené Brown

“On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it’s own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing.”
― Margaret Atwood

“No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.”
― Takayuki Yamaguchi

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)”
― Wendell Berry

“A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.”
― David Winter

“You ask me why I don’t speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill’
Well I value words like I value kisses
A sober one, a closer one penetrates the heart
Darling it’s how it mends it”
― Criss Jami

“I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger’s considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus V.A.T.”
― John Lanchester

“When you’ve succeeded, you’d say:
‘Indeed I’d to go through those hell
before fit into all of this happiness.”
― Toba Beta

“Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.”
― Criss Jami

“We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s easy to tell others they are loved, but not so easy to believe it of ourselves — not because we don’t think God loves His children, but because we may feel undeserving of His love. The adversary loves to remind us who we are not. Not pretty. Not smart. Not strong. But God would not have sacrificed His Son to save us if we aren’t worth saving.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Don’t ever reject a small
when you can’t take it all.”
― Toba Beta

“And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He’s been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something.”
― Louise Penny

“But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. You and me – why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can’t start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man – he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that’s us; and when the tractor hit the house, that’s us until we’re dead. To California or any place – every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day – the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they’ll all walk together, and there’ll be a dead terror from it.”
― John Steinbeck

“I’ve learned, that not all worth is measured by price. I’ve found so many gems that didn’t cost me much!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. “She’s a sweet girl, but poor.”

Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. “Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.”
― Kim Harrison, A Perfect Blood

Values Quotes about Humanity

 

Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century’s Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information… We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward… We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.

Robert Bateman quotes

Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century’s Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information… We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward… We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.

Robert Bateman quotes

Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century’s Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information… We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward… We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.

Robert Bateman quotes

great mass of humanity

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

    D.H. Lawrence quotes

  

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

    Simone de Beauvoir quotes

  

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the “division” of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

    Simone de Beauvoir quotes

  

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

    Albert Einstein quotes

  

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

    Dalai Lama quotes

  

Every gun that’s made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms…is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers, the hope of its children – it is humanity from a cross of iron.

    Dwight David Eisenhower quotes

  

All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes

  

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’

    Ann Landers quotes

  

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

    Kahlil Gibran quotes

  

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

    Mary Ashton Livermore quotes

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

    Kahlil Gibran quotes

  

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

    Victor Hugo quotes

  

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

    Charles de Gaulle quotes

  

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

    Dalai Lama quotes

  

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

    Honore de Balzac quotes

  

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

    Marie Curie quotes

  

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

    Henry Louis Mencken quotes

  

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

    Mahatma Gandhi quotes

  

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

    Michel de Montaigne quotes

  

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

    Anonymous quotes

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

    Anonymous quotes

  

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are there

    Anonymous quotes

  

Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw

    Anonymous quotes

  

  

Quotes About Human Behavior

“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life

“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday”
― Don Marquis

“… People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”
― Lev S. Vygotsky

“Perhaps because I’ll never be one, humans are interesting to me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life

“You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.”
― Carroll Bryant

“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.”
― Dan Ariely, The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

“No one really knows why humans do what they do.”
― David K. Reynolds

“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it.”
― William Dietrich, Napoleon’s Pyramids

“Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“People who discriminate doesn’t understand that they are a stranger to others.”
― Jestoni Revealed

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds…this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can’t be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.”
― Michael Crichton

“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.”
― Neil Abramson, Unsaid: A Novel

“When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“I’m an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They’ll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their young, unleash a bloodbath that impresses even me, at the expense of providing shelter, food, and medicine for their own people. Compared to that, the sale of a few women is trivial.”
― Mario Acevedo, The Undead Kama Sutra

“Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body…”
― Kiley MacLeod

“Minds weren’t pictures at an exhibition, all numbered, and hung in order of influence, one marked “Cunning,” the next, “Impressionable.” They were scrawls; they were sprawling splashes of graffiti, unpredictable, unconfinable.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vols. 1-3

“سأحاول أن أحبك, لا لأنك جدير بهذا الحب ولكن لأنى جدير بأن أنّظف قلبى من كره الأخرين”
― Shadi Kamal Kandil

“How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo’s claim that the earth was not the center of the solar system, put him under house arrest for the last eight years of his life? In part, the answer lies in the distinction between skepticism and closed-mindedness. Many scientists who were skeptical about cold fusion nevertheless tried to replicate the reported phenomenon in their own labs; Galileo’s critics refused to look at the pertinent data.”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed”
― Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Transcending Humanity Quotes

“We must try to remember everything, every movement, every stretch, every convulsion that made us how we move as we readily grow in our outer body that encompasses the planets, the suns and the moons in every other body that we touch, in every other mouth that we kissed, in every other language that we try to comprehend; for they are not the outside of a stranger, nor are they just images of our psyche, but the very being of ourselves, the dimensional levels of our very existence weaving colours in the tapestry of creation, yet the very non-existence of the template is proof of consciousness, of ascension, of Life.”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“Be formless. As long as your “I” is asserted, it will be an idol of worship”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“The heart must not only feel, but also empathize with humanity for therein the reflective is ItSelf, in concert — Christ Consciousness”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“Don’t talk of Life as if its one big package of miseries – it is the very Essence within that passes through both you, and your enemies and every permissible illusion. Once you’re opened to, and are awakened to your TRUE NATURE, fireworks light up your path, irrespective whether it is a “Tariqa”, or a pathless one!”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“Le voile est essentielle pour le monde, soit par l’organisme, ou au moyen de la connaissance”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“The Secret to saneful living is in the Key between these two worlds. In order to serve the higher ideal, one must revert to serving the Spark within all the multiplicities herein conceivable in the apparent world. The spark in itself is not contained for it encompasses both realities, that of the inner, and the apparent”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“Being human trespass the conditionings of the laws of the worlds that have been created by the conditioned society — these reflective of a conditioned mind reflect the facets of the self, to discipline and educate indirectly; restrict evolution for pardon, and affliction”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“Islaam is the Name of the Universe. Christ is the Soul, and Abraham, the Foundation — The Rainbow At Midnight”
― AainaA-Ridtz 

“When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating the Aleph in the sealed Universe — As The Soul Speaks”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“Do not contemplate the Essence of the UnVeiled, for the UnVeiled therein your World does not hold to polarities, nor of your conjectures; Chapter “The Unveiling”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“No justification is needed for those who have attained to الحقيقة {Truth} for they are the Ones who are in the Know. The Truth is لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِه ِ شَيْء … and is indescribable. What can be describe is just a perception! You can NEVER HAVE the Truth! You have to ATTAIN to it! So Know!”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

“When you’ve attained to your hidden within your apparent vice versa, know that you have reached Eternal Time, and Divine Presence. The Communion is in the Breath.”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

Thoughts On Humanity

Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.

• –Cleveland Amory

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

• –William S. Burroughs

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

• –Willa Cather

Men and women are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

• –Isak Dinesen

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

• –Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

• –Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

• –Vincent van Gogh

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

• –John Haldane

Men and women should live next door and visit each other once in a while.

• –Katharine Hepburn

The traveler’s-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

• –Aldous Huxley

Buy ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

• –I Peter

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

• –Guglielmo Marconi

There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

• –Edwin Markham

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

• –Don Marquis

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

• –Giuseppe Mazzini

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

• –Mary McCarthy

The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man, and man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.

• –Alan Paton

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remains standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

• –Pope John Paul II

It’s great to be great, but it’s greater to be human.

• –Will Rogers

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

• –George Bernard Shaw

The desire for the well-being of one’s own nation can be-and must be-made compatible with the welfare of all humanity.

• –Louis L. Snyder

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

• –Woodrow Wilson

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes Quotations

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Mahatma GandhiAs long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Mahatma GandhiFreedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma GandhiHonest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mahatma GandhiI believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma GandhiI cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mahatma GandhiI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma GandhiI want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Mahatma GandhiIn the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Mahatma GandhiStrength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma GandhiThe weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma GandhiWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always.

Mahatma GandhiYou must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma GandhiYou must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi, “Non-Violence in Peace and War”

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,’ May 3, 1919

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Mahatma Gandhi, 1931

How To Restore Your Faith In Humanity

What would it take to restore your faith in humanity?

Someone once bought our dinner when we were young parents. It made quite a mark on us. The foundation of this gesture was good parenting.

– Keep up the good work… time goes by so fast.

(A NOTE LEFT ON A YOUNG FAMILY’S CHECK)

Maybe its seeing someone pay it forward to a person they’ve never met.

Or seeing signs of generosity in places you thought were only interested in making money.

SUBWAYâ„¢
FREE MEAL FOR THE HOMELESS EVERY FRIDAY
3-5 PM

(A SIGN AT AN AWESOME SUBWAY RESTAURANT)

DRY CLEANING 909
IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED AND NEED AN OUTFIT CLEAN FOR AN INTERVIEW, WE WILL CLEAN IT FOR FREE.

(SIGN AT A LOCAL DRY-CLEANER)

Maybe it’s seeing someone else who understands that it’s not always about winning.

(OHIO ATHLETE HELPS A COMPETITOR FINISH)

Sometimes it just about helping someone else cross the finish line.

Maybe it’s something as simple as a smile.

(A GUATEMALAN GIRL AND A TOURIST SHE JUST MET)

Or a gift for someone in need.

(A MAN GIVING HIS SHOES TO A HOMELESS GIRL IN RIO DE JANEIRO)

Or an apology…

(I’m Sorry for how the church has treated you)
(I used to be a bible-banging homophobe – SORRY!)
(I’m sorry Christians have shunned you)
(I’m sorry Christians judge you)

(CHICAGO CHRISTIANS AT A GAY PRIDE PARADE APOLOGIZING FOR HOMOPHOBIA IN THE CHURCH)

… and the relief that comes from it.

(AND THE REACTION FROM THE PARADE)

Of many its seeing someone reach out across division, across cultures to find new friends.

Hello Neighbour,

My name is Mohammad —-, a Muslin, living at ——–

We are observing fasting the month of Ramadhan.

On Sunday, August 7th, 2011 at 8.00 pm, I would like to invite you and your family at the occasion of breaking the fast. Dinner will be served.

Please call me to confirm, also let me know the number of family members are coming.

(AN OFFER FROM A NEIGHBOR)

Maybe it’s to find other people that realize just how silly the world can be sometimes.

(A POLL ON WHAT SNOOKI SHOULD NAME HER KID)

POLL

What should Snooki name her son?
Lorenzo 5%
Jionni Jr. 3%
I really don’t care. 92%

Thank you for voting.

She’s narrowed it to Lorenzo or Jionni Jr.

160,470 votes

(A VILLAGER CARRYING STRANDED KITTENS DURING THE FLOODS IN CUTTACK CITY, INDIA)

Sometimes it helps to remember that there are good people out there.

(FIREFIGHTER ADMINISTERING OXYGEN TO CATS)

People whose instinct it is to protect the weak and the helpless to be brave.

(TWO NORWEGIAN DUDES RESCUE A LAMB)

People who don’t hesitate to help a stranger even if it’s an inconvenience or dangerous or acquires a bit of undressing in the process.

(A MAN JUMPING INTO ROUGH WATER TO RESCUE A STRANGER’S SHIH TZU IN MELBOURNE)

It helps to remember that this instinct spans generations.

(TWO KIDS COLLABORATE TO RESCUE A DOG THAT HAD FALLEN INTO A RAVINE)

That young people can act kindly without being told to and that old people will sometimes give their lives in order to spare the young.

(Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis)

(SENIORS VOLUNTEER AT FUKUSHIMA SO YOUNG PEOPLE WOULDN’T BE EXPOSED TO RADIATION)

Sometimes it helps to remember that there is good in this world. Real honest good.

humanity quotes

 

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
– Notebook, 1896

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
– A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being–that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
– “Concerning the Jews”

Every man is in his own person the whole human race, with not a detail lacking. I am the whole human race without a detail lacking; I have studied the human race with diligence and strong interest all these years in my own person; in myself I find in big or little proportion every quality and every defect that is findable in the mass of the race. I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born; I knew I should not find a single original thought in any philosophy, and I knew I could not furnish one to the world myself, if I had five centuries to invent it in. Nietzsche published his book, and was at once pronounced crazy by the world-by a world which included tens of thousands of bright, sane men who believed exactly as Nietzsche believed but concealed the fact and scoffed at Nietzsche. What a coward every man is! and how surely he will find it out if he will just let other people alone and sit down and examine himself. The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
– Mark Twain in Eruption

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
– Christian Science

Doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on.
– “3,000 Years Among the Microbes”

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
– The Mysterious Stranger

 

Peace and Humanity Quotes II

“There can be no peace without law.”
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

“Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things. ”
(César Chávez)

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

“Peace is our gift to each other.”
(Elie Wiesel)

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
(Jimi Hendrix)

“The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me. ”
(Lyndon Baines Johnson)

“We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.”
(Marian Wright Edelman)

“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ”
(Andre Gide)

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
(William Gladstone)

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
(César Chávez)

“The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one’s life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. ”
(Robert Maynard Hutchins)

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
(Moshe Dayan)

“Let us not deceive ourself: we must elect world peace or world destruction. ”
(Bernard Mannes Baruch)

“It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together. ”
(Carl Sagan)

“Peace is every step.”
(Thich Nhat Hahn)

“The only alternative to coesistence is codestruction ”
(Jawaharlal Nehru)

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak…Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win. ”
(César Chávez)

“There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement. ”
(Barbara Marx Hubbard)

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
(A. J. Muste)

“Nonviolence, pacifism, that’s the greatest thing that I think the human species has to aspire to, because otherwise it’s not going to be around. ”
(Martin Scorsese)

“I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.” ”
(Stockard Channing)

“The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise. Thus shall we live, because we will have created a society which recognizes that all people are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure to life, liberty, prosperity, human rights and good governance. Such a society should never allow again that there should be prisoners of conscience nor that any person’s human rights should be violated. ”
(Nelson Mandela)

“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.”
(Albert Einstein)

“Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.”
( Oscar Romero)

“By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first. ”
(Martha Gellhorn)

“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.quot;
(Thich Nhat Hanh)

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
(Mother Teresa)

“We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause…If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle. ”
(César Chávez)

“If you don’t like the way to the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ”
(Marian Wright Edelman)

“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ”
(William Ellery Channing)

“Peace be with you. ”
(The Bible: Genesis XLIII. 23)

“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor
it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.”
(John F. Kennedy)

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
(Mother Teresa)

“We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.”
(Adolfo Perez Esquivel)

“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. ”
(Gerry Adams)

“Peace-making is a healing process and it begins with me, but it does not end there. ”
(Gene Knudsen Hoffman)

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom, and peace of mind
are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
(Peyton Conway March)

“The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one’s life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.”
(Robert Maynard Hutchins)

“Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.”
(Pema Chodron)

“Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.”
(Oscar Arias Sanchez)

“A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. ”
(Gersonides)

“What greater cause and what more splendid adventure can be set before the youth of the world than the endeavor to bring into being that age-old dream of saints and sages – the great Commonwealth of the World as the visible embodiment of the brotherhood of man? ”
(Arthur Henderson )

“Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm, Endless extinction of unhappy hates. ”
(Matthew Arnold )

“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.”
(Ramona L. Anderson)

“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.”
(Dorothy Day )

“If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another. ”
(Mohandas Gandhi)

“Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what’s happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do. ”
(Wangari Maathai )

“Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.”
(Daisaku Ikeda)

“You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can’t bomb it into peace. ”
(Michael Franti)

“If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.”
(Mairead Corrigan Maguire)

“Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. ”
(Oscar Arias Sanchez )

“If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
(Thomas Paine)

“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
(Thomas a Kempis)

” The life of “peace” is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense. ”
(John Dear )

“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
(Isaiah, II:4 )

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ”
(St. Francis of Assisi )

“The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many. ”
(Hubert Humphrey)

“It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems … However, with faith and perseverance, … complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.”
(Jimmy Carter)

“Peace is the respect for the rights of others. (El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz ).”
(Benito Juarez)

“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”
( A. J. Muste)

“Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future. ”
(Jack DuVall )

“It is easier to make war than to make peace. ”
(George Clemenceau )

“A truly free society must not include a “peace” which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace.is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential”
(Petra Karin Kelly )

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
(William E. Gladstone )

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
(Tenzin Gyatso )

“We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. ”
(Albert Einstein)

“But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.”
(John F. Kennedy)

“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences. ”
(M. P. Follett )

“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”
(Robert Fulghum)

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
(Malcolm X)

“We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will – and determination – to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.”
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ”
(Dag Hammarskjold )

“If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.”
(Lao Tzu )

“One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.”
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
(Thomas Jefferson)

“All we are saying is give peace a chance. ”
(John Lennon)

“We must build a new world, a far better world – one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.”
(Harry S. Truman)

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”
(John Lennon)

“We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will – and determination – to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.”
(Martin Luther King