I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
I rebel; therefore I exist.
No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
