“We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.”
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“It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.”
“I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.”
“The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.”
“The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.”
“If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.”
“The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.”
“Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth.”
“I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.”
“You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.”
“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.”
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
“once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”
“Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.”
“Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”
“Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.”
“Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.”
“If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.”
“I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.”