Quotes

On Dreams and Vision:

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” Victor Hugo

“We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.” Theodore Roosevelt

“People who give will never be poor.” Anne Frank

“I believe in all that has not yet been spoken.” Rainer Maria Rilke

Love and Relationship:

“Unconditional love, unlimited love comes from ultimate spiritual reality, by whatever name we call it. This is the original source of nourishment we seek. By tapping into this dimension through prayer, contemplation and meditation, we begin to experience this ultimate value in our life and spontaneously share it with others.” Dionne Marx

“We misplace our priorities in seeking a true experience of love when we blindly search for it horizontally, from others, rather than letting it flow into us from the very core of life itself.” Dionne Marx

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” Mignon McLaughlin

“One of the basic factors we frequently fail to realize is that to experience a fully loving relationship with another person, we must become the manifestations of the qualities we seek. For the two people intimately involved this means a mutual and ongoing process of stepping beyond their little selves so they can share together the deeper essence and greater being flowing through them.” Dionne Marx

Challenges and Obstacles:

“It is when we are forced to endure a trial of needing and wanting to respond appropriately to those who may be harmful to us, or when we suffer from the betrayal of those we love most deeply, or when we precipitate a crisis of our own making, that we are truly given an opportunity to explore our latent abilities in opening up to new dimensions of love.” Dionne Marx

On God

“God and I are like two fat people in a tiny boat, we keep bumping into each other and laughing” – Rumi

Hard Truth, Inevitability, the Arrogance of Men

“Much of what human beings do happens simply by virtue of our agreements that it should. By agreement alone-not because there is any particular reason…” William Isaacs, Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together

“They have tried to prove our democracy an empty fraud, and our nation a consistent oppressor of underprivileged people. This may seem ludicrous to Americans, but it is sufficiently important to worry our friends.  The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.”    Truman’s Committee  on Civil Rights quoted in Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.