Quotes that have left footprints on my heart...

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." (Robert Fulghum) 

"Hope is a path on the moutainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path." (Lu Xun)

"If you don't like the way the world is, you can change it. You have an obligation to change it. You do it one step at a time." (Manan Wright Edelman)

"Poverty won't all him to lift his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down." (Madagasy Proverb)

"There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you care capable of living." (Nelson Mandela)

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"I have only one request/ I do not ask for money/ Although I have need of it/ I do not ask for meat.../ I have only one request/ All I ask is/ That you remove/ The roadblock/ From my path." (Okot Pibiter)

" You see/ I want a lot/ Perhaps I want everything/ The darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. " (Rainer Maria Rilke)

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future." (George Bernard Shaw)

"There are only two mistakes one can make on the road to Truth; not going all the way, and not starting."  (Buddha)

"How much crueler the poverty of a broken spirit can be than the poverty of income alone." (Jacqueline Novogratz)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a long time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." (Gandhi)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." (Martin Luther King Jr.)

"God helps those who perservere." (The Quran)

"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now." (Wangan Mathai)

"How you do things is as important as what you do, great strength and spiritual fulfillment can come from the divine nature of work well done." (Jacqueline Novogratz)

"Go to the people;
live with them, learn from them
love them
start with what they know
build with what they have.

But of the best leaders,
when the job is done,
the task accomplished,
the people will say:
"We have done it ourselves." " (Lao Tzu)

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." (Robert F. Kennedy)