“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 212 of 783
“Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.”
“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.”
“The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.”
“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.”
“Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.”
“If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.”
“Literature is my Utopia”
“'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.”
“Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”
“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”
“Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.”
“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”
“The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.”
“Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.”
“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”
“We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.”
“My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.”
“As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.”
“The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor”