“World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.”
Hopeful feeling
Hopeful Quotes — page 194 of 783
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”
“Great God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created! The judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated! The trumpet sounds; the graves restore, The dead which they contained before; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!”
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
“I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.”
“Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.”
“I am still learning. (at age 87)”
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”
“If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.”
“In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.”
“I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as - probably more joyous than - being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.”
“Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.”
“Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.”
“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”
“For Narnia and for Aslan!”
“It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!”
“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
“One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.”