Inspiring quotes

Aung San Suu Kyi: “There is darkness in the world, but it is merely an absence of light.
All the darkness in the world cannot dispel even the smallest candle flame. We need only
to accustom ourselves to the dim vision, and then the blessing of light will grow.”
(quoted in Faith, by Sharon Salzberg, 112)

“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”
– Camus

“If I don’t manage to fly, someone else will.

The spirit wants only that there be flying.
As for who happens to do it,
In that he has only a passing interest.”

- Rilke

HUMAN POTENTIAL:

“Deep within humans dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish them,
that they never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize their lives if
aroused and put into action.” – Orison Marden

COURAGE:

“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not everyday surmount a fear.” –
Emerson

“Human greatness lies not in being able to remake the world but in being able to remake
ourselves.” – Gandhi

“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and
enhances the freedom of others.” – Mandela

“I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated as surely as the
oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is
locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am
taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is
taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and
oppressor both.” – Mandela

“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the
long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the
stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine

“You must do the thing that you think that you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“You cannot remake the world without remaking yourself. Each new era begins within. It
is an inward event, with unsuspected possibilities for inner liberation.” – Ben Okri

“You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, and it may not be in your
time that there will be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop… If you do nothing,
there will be no result.” – Gandhi

“A great inner revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the
destiny of a nation and humanity.” – D. Ikeda

“The desertification of the planet is created by a desertification of the human spirit.” -

Ikeda

From Coleman Barks, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Rumi:

“It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow

a thousand times. Still come,
and, yet again, come. (xviii)

Pasternak: “It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the way to new and better days
but…someone’s soul, inspired and ablaze.”

Bishop Tutu: “There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person

who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned around by
ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.”