Be
a Hero for a Better World ... Every Act of Kindness Makes
a Difference!
ASPIRATION
Far
away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow them.
-- Louisa May Alcott
Why
are we so zealous, then, about the private sector? We
persist in designating a large part of the economy as
private so that we can disavow public responsibility
for its evils and claim individual merit for its blessings.
As a civic body, we are reluctant to countenance and
cure the deprivations of the poor, the damage to the
environment, and the trivialization of culture that
are the depressing concomitants of our advanced industrial
economy. At the same time applauding the rich and powerful
who claim their privileges as the fruits of their rugged
and individual efforts, we sanction our positions and
our aspirations
-- Albert Borgmann
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are
moving towards a global village, but that global village
brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different
ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different
aspirations. I think respect and understanding will
help that village function better than it does today.
-- Lakhdar
Brahimi
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"If
a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first
act of abstinence is from injury to animals."
-- Albert
Einstein
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"If
a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first
act of abstinence is from injury to animals."
-- Albert
Einstein
Our movement is of the working people, for the working
people, by the working people. . . . There is not
a right too long denied to which we do not aspire
in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long
endured that we are not determined to abolish.
-- Samuel
Gompers
Once
again a new world view is arising ... This idea is
the culmination of all human history. It holds the
promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the
past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our
evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution."
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
There
has always been a longing in the human heart for a
more just, free, loving and creative society. But
it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations,
because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and
global crises to force us to change, nor did we have
the scientific and technological powers that can free
us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease,
and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the
social potential movement. -- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
Once
again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the
culmination of all human history. It holds the promise
of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and
heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution.
It is the idea of conscious evolution."
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
Your
hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate.
They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds,
above the storms, if you only let them.
--William James
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Let us today seek to find that place within each of
us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations
take shape. Let us confirm the power of our humanity
by giving architecture and substance to the dreams we
have for our nation, so that the promised land of social
and economic justice that is within our dreams will
soon be within our sight.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
We
need to build millions of little moments of caring
on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics
of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will
feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual
and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves
to give more space to their highest vision in their
personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning
is as much about these millions of small acts as it
is about any larger change. The two necessarily go
hand in hand.
-- Rabbi
Michael Lerner
"If
we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the
right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric
or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality
then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are
shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude
that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present
privileged status. Every act that denies or limits
the freedom of the individual in this country costs
us the. . . confidence of men and women who aspire
to that freedom and independence of which we speak
and for which our ancestors fought."
-- Edward
R. Murrow
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We
develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we
brush aside the species… we risk creating a wasteland,
where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die"
-- Queen
Noor of Jordan
Peace
- the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream
of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate
human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly
shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our
actions tell a very different story.
-- Javier
Perez de Cuellar
Nonviolence,
pacifism, that's the greatest thing that I think the human
species has to aspire to,
because otherwise it's not going to be around.
-- Martin Scorsese
“Life
is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self.
Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce.
Meditate.
Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know
Thyself.”
-- Swami Sivananda
