I'm
tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment.
It's, like, let's only have goals that we can
go after.
-- Bono
*
The
world is more malleable than you think and it's
waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
-- Bono
To
live content with small means; to seek elegance rather
than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to
be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich;
to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with
open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly,
talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word,
to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow
up through the common--this is my symphony.
-- William Henry Channing
Waiting
is painful. Forgetting is painful.
But not knowing which to do is the worse kind
of suffering.
-- Paulo Coelho
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right
moment to act.
-- Paulo Coelho
*
"We
have the ability to provide clean water for every
man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been
lacking is the collective will to accomplish this.
What are we waiting for? This is the commitment
we need to make to the world, now."
~ Jean-Michel
Cousteau
"I'd
put my money on the sun and solar energy.
What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait
'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
~ Thomas Edison (1847–1931)
“The
individual must not merely wait and criticize,
he must defend the cause the best he can. The
fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.”
-- Albert Einstein
Neither
a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks
of history to wait for the train of the future
to run over him.
-- Dwight D.
Eisenhower
*
The
world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"How
wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve
the world."
-- Anne Frank
"The
good news is, we have everything we need now to
respond to the challenge of global warming. We
have all the technologies we need, more are being
developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot
wait, we must not wait."
~ Al Gore
*
Time
always seems long to the child who is waiting
- for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming
a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole
soul to each moment of a happy day. -- Dag
Hammarskjöld
*
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may
find, peace of mind is waiting there.”
-- George Harrison
Someone
who does not draw strength from himself and who
is incapable of finding the meaning of his life
within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation
somewhere outside himself--in some ideology, organization,
or society, and then, however active he may appear
to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits
to see what others will do, or what roles they will
assign to him, and he depends on them--and if they
don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs
to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.
-- Vaclav Havel
*
Don't
wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you
or empower you. You have to just start out with
yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.
-- Hazel
Henderson
Banish
the word "struggle" from your attitude and your
vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in
a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the
ones we’ve been waiting for.
- Elders of the Hopi Nation
Hope
begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just
show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will
come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
-- Anne Lamott
"Our
message today is one of hope. It is about potential
waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet
the global challenges we face now and in the future
is to make every mother and child count.
~ Dr. LEE
Jong-wook, WHO Secretary-General
The
workers of the nation were tired of waiting
for corporate industry to right their economic
wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and
to grant them their political rights. Despairing
of fair treatment, they resolved to do something
for themselves.
-- John L.
Lewis
*
Change
will not come if we wait for some other person
or some other time. We are the ones we've been
waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
-- Barack Obama
*
Change
will not come if we wait for some other person or
some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting
for. We are the change that we seek.
-- Barack Obama
Redemption
comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
-- Tom Petty
The world is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Bertrand
Russell
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting
to be known. -- Carl Sagan
*
Every
moment has led to this moment. Now is the time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for. Together
we can create a better world.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
*
We
can help create that better world countless Dreamers
have imagined, wished for, and endeavored to make
come true. Every moment has brought us to this
moment. We are the ones we've been waiting for
to manifest our shared Peacetopian Dream...
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
"Human
history has been recorded as a succession of wars
and changing empires. But a ray of hope has been
carried forth throughout the ages by dreamers
who have envisioned a more peaceful, just and
sustainable world. The Magna Carta, the US Constitution
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
were quantum leaps forward in our collective quest
for a better world. We still have far to go, but
we can help create that better world countless
dreamers have imagined, wished for and endeavored
to make come true. Every moment has brought us
to this moment. We are the ones we've been waiting
for to manifest our shared peacetopian dream."
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
*
"Do
not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
-- Mother Teresa.
Dreams
are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us and
new beauty waiting to be born.
-- Dr. Dale Turner
*
Infuse
your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen.
Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your
own hope.
-- Bradley Whitford
Maturity
includes the recognition that no one is going
to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves.
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
-- Marianne
Williamson
To
be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly
romantic. It is based on the fact that human history
is a history not only of cruelty, but also of
compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What
we choose to emphasize in this complex history
will determine our lives. If we see only the worst,
it destroys our capacity to do something. If we
remember those times and places -- and there are
so many -- where people have behaved magnificently,
this gives us the energy to act, and at least
the possibility of sending this spinning top of
a world in a different direction. And if we do
act, in however small a way, we don't have to
wait for some grand utopian future. The future
is an infinite succession of presents, and to
live now as we think human beings should live,
in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself
a marvelous victory.
-- Howard
Zinn
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