Here are some inspiring words from some of very inspiring people:
NELSON MANDELA
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination”
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”
DR. WAYNE DYER
Wayne Dyer, PH.D., is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-development. He’s the author of over 30 books, has created many audio programs and videos, and has appeared on thousands of television and radio shows.
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds”
LOUISE L. HAY
RECENTLY DUBBED “the closest thing to a living saint” by the Australian media, Louise L. Hay is also known as one of the founders of the self-help movement. Her first book, Heal Your Body, was published in 1976, long before it was fashionable to discuss the connection between the mind and body.
“I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works”
“If you are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed”
“All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are”
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness”
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world”
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned”
BILL CLINTON
William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit”
“Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents”
“We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not with weapons”
WARREN BUFFET
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the most successful investor of the 20th century.
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”
“Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill”
DAVID SUZUKI
David Takayoshi Suzuki, is a Japanese Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph. D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, The Nature of Things, seen in over forty nations. He is also well-known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”
“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us”
“For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority”
INGRID NEWKIRK
Ingrid Newkirk is an English-born British American animal rights activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the world’s largest animal rights organization.
“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”
“Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck”
“I think if you are against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat”
JOHN LENNON
John Winston Ono Lennon, was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Beatles, the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of popular music.
“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans”
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong”
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace”
WOODY HARRELSON
Actor, environmental activist, ethical vegan and raw foodist and supporter for the legalization of marijuana and hemp.
“The war against terrorism is terrorism”
“I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it’s in our unity that we’ll have the greatest strength”
“The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just wants to live in peace and justice in a clean environment. When we look around the world and we see that is not the case, we know the will of the majority is not being listened to, that’s the first sign that our system is broken”
“There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We’re the majority, and we can do something about that”
HARVEY MILK
Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
“Hope will never be silent”
“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door”
“It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions”
“Coming out is the most political thing you can do”
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS
John Robert Lewis is an American politician and civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, serving since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation.
“I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end”
“When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change”
“If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed”
These quotes and words come from people who were and continue to be passionate about what they strongly believe in, whether that is our environment, politics, animals, human rights and freedom – they have all been and continue to be conduits for positive change.
Together we can make the world a more positive one!
COALITION OF POSITIVE ENERGY 