The
biggest obstacle for creating a culture of peace is
that most people won't let themselves even think about
peace on earth.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
If
only we could have a wealth of literature and music
and art that would inspire and encourage us and show
us how wonderful peace on earth could be, perhaps
we would be more excited about working together to
create a better world. If you are a writer, artist,
musician or filmmaker, and you dream of peace on earth,
please use your creativity to help create a better
world.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
The
Season For Nonviolence has grown into an important educational
and media opportunity to bring communities together, empowering
them to envision and help create a nonviolent world, one
heart and one day at a time. Throughout the 64-day campaign,
events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place
all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding
initiatives and inspiring new year-round activities for
a more peaceful, nonviolent, just and sustainable world.
Imagine
a world where nations never war.
Where no more weapons are fired any more.
Imagine a world where people do what's right
And the rule of law is stronger than the rule of might.
Imagine a world where everyone has all they need.
Where kindness and compassion are taught instead of greed.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!
Imagine a world where the global economy
is based on what's best for all earth's communities.
Where beauty and art and the media inspire
The best in all, and lift our spirits higher.
Imagine a world where science and technology
Serve only to bring out the best in humanity.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!
Imagine
a world where no child is left behind
Where children everywhere are free to educate their minds.
Imagine a world where tolerance and diversity
Are the golden rule that guides humanity.
Imagine a world where people don't neglect
The beauty of the earth, and treat it with respect.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein (Based on Pathways To Peace's "Imagine
A World")
*
"We
intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious
planet that any human being can imagine and, really,
beyond anything any human being can imagine."
-- Hafsat
Abiola
*...Several
million Sarvodaya adherents in Sri Lanka have proved
that they can transcend racial, religious, linguistic
and ethnic barriers to accept a common state of ideals,
principles, and constructive programs to build a new
society as collectively envisioned by them.
--
Dr.
Ari Ariyaratne
*
When the story of these times gets written, we want
it to say that we did all we could, and it was more
than anyone could have imagined.
--
Bono
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When
we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of
reality.
-- Archbishop
Helder Camara
The
main failure of education is that it has not prepared
people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
-- Norman
Cousins
“Live
out of your imagination, not your history.” - Stephen Covey
"Your
imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
-- Albert
Einstein
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than
the heart can imagine.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
A
man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks,
he becomes.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
*
If
we are to change our world view, images have to change.
The artist now has a very important job to do. He's
not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people,
he's really needed.
-- Vaclav
Havel
"Imagine
what millions of us can accomplish... we will make
our dream of a better world a reality.."
-- Ellis
Jones
Some
men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream
of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
-- Robert
F. Kennedy (paraphrase of quote by George Bernard
Shaw)
Active
citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired
outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
--
Dennis
Kucinich
If
you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that
keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that
quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And
so today I still have a dream. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"Anti-utopianism
continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine
that society can be fundamentally improved, and those
who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening."
-- Lewis
Lapham
*
"Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one." -- John
Lennon
*
Imagine
no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
-- John
Lennon
"A dream
you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together
is reality."
-- John
Lennon
The
liberals have not softened their view of actuality
to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead
sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream
actuality...
-- Margaret
Mead
*
Thinking about how the world might be and envisioning
a society characterized by justice are the essence
of conceptualizing the conditions that comprise positive
peace. If we are to educate for peace, both teachers
and students need to have some notion of the transformed
world we are educating for.
-- Betty
Reardon
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then
they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the
will, they soon become inevitable.
-- Christopher
Reeve
"You
must believe that you can help bring about a better
world." -- Bertrand
Russell
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine
what you desire, you will what you imagine and at
last you create what you will."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
The
world will become what we envision it to be. And if
we are fearful, and we think we should tense up and
prepare for an ongoing battle, then that's what we'll
have. But if we are open and we prepare for promoting
dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each
other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the
world will become, a more tolerant, loving place.
So each individual that stands up is a part of a bigger
prayer.
-- Russell
Simmons
Without
leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement
of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of
planning."
-- Gloria
Steinem
Love
alone can unite living beings so as to complete and
fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is
deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our
ability to love developing until it embraces the totality
of men and the earth.
-- Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
Let
go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently
in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you
imagined.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
I
have learned, that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live
the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember,
you have within you the strength, the patience, and
the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-- Harriet
Tubman
“Every
great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember,
you have within you the strength, the patience, and
the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-- Harriet
Tubman
If you
can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it,
you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
I
feel like we are at a time of great creativity if
we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage
the will of our imaginations and imagine another way
of being in the world.
~ Terry
Tempest Williams
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations.
Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics
is what we create, by what we work for, by what we
hope for and what we dare to imagine.
-- Paul
Wellstone
*
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas
can change the world.”
-- Robin
Williams
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or
in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of
us let these great dreams die, but others nourish
and protect them; nurse them through bad days till
they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes
always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams
will come true. -- Woodrow
Wilson
Read The Better World
Shopping Guide Every Dollar Makes
a Difference Purchase
at Amazon.com
Read The BETTER
WORLD BOOK ... join
the betterworld
movement... FREE
online