I am always inspired by the positive ideas and thoughts of others and enjoy hearing how they feel about the social and political issues that we currently face and have faced in the past. Here are some great quotes from some very inspiring people:
PRINCESS DIANA
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. ”
“Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. ”
“HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.”
“The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.”
ADELE
“I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”
“People are starting to go on about my weight but I’m not going to change my size because they don’t like the way I look.”
” I don’t want people confusing what it is that I’m about. I just stand there and sing. And I don’t do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don’t think I’d get away with it.”
“I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.”
“Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn’t support me, so I am living her dream, it’s sweeter for both of us. It’s her 40th birthday soon and I’m going to buy her 40 presents.”
DALAI LAMA
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short-term and the long-term for both yourself and others will come.”
“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.”
“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.”
“When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.'”
MAHATMA GANDHI
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
“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.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”
“Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
LOUISE L. HAY
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
“I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.”
“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.”
“Every thought we think is creating our future.”
“The point of power is always in the present moment.”
MOTHER TERESA
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
NELSON MANDELA
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”
“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”
“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
“It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.”
“The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.”
“We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.”
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.”
“What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.”
BILL MAHER
“Freedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that ‘Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,’ as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn’t insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”
“I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?”
“To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.”
“We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.”
“We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.”
DAVID SUZUKI
“The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.”
“It’s time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let’s not let another election go by without making this a high priority.”
“We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.”
“In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.”
“Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles”
DIAN FOSSEY
“I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla’s going to do, and they’re purely motivated.”
“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.”
“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.”
INGRID NEWKIRK
“It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.”
“When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
JANE GOODALL
“Change happens by listening and then starting dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.”
“We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”
“As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.”
STEVE JOBS
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
“It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
“TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE THE WORLD A MORE POSITIVE ONE” – Rob Pavao
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