The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: life hope Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stop thinking this is all there is. . . . Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral. . . . Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel. . . . Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious . . . there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable. —Mark Morford More about this quote Tags: war humanity beauty religion change world art temptation generosity magic resistance environment fatalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the truth is revolutionary. —Graffiti, Paris, May 1968 More about this quote Tags: truth revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two things to remember about a revolution: first, we're gonna get our asses kicked, and second, we're gonna win. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: loss revolution defeat victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always had a decent sense of outrage. —Bella Abzug More about this quote Tags: anger outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All revolutionary changes are unthinkable until they happen — and then they are understood to be inevitable. —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: change revolution inevitiability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: reality power change creation commitment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You find lots of little things going on in every community in the country. If there is a world here in a hundred years, it will not be due to any big organization of any sort, no big political group, no big church, no big government. It is going to be saved by millions upon millions of little organizations. It might just be that what Jesus and Jeremiah and Mohammed and Buddha talked about will come true. —Pete Seeger More about this quote Tags: politics history government Jesus community organizations churches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there. —Vita Sackville-West More about this quote Tags: hope paradise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair is a greater deceiver than hope. —Marqui de Vauvenargues More about this quote Tags: hope despair sadness deception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing happened. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: change money irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence, you had damned well better take the action that would create it. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People have the power to redeem the work of fools. —Patti Smith More about this quote Tags: power people work fools Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: strength hearts change conscience respect nonviolence courage oppression self-respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email