Inspirational quotes
“No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We need to learn to see the world anew.”
Albert Einstein
“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
Mother Teresa
Albanian Christian missionary in India
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
“Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.”
The Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhist spiritual and temporal leader
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
“Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too late.’ There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on …We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos and community.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American clergyman,
civil rights leader
Nobel Peace Prize winner
“Throughout the past centuries we have been busy making persistent efforts to conquer nature, but we have never learned to conquer ourselves. We have learned to cope with the perils of nature, but we have not learned enough to cope with the sinister nature of our own thinking and our own behaviour.”
Associate Professor Dr Suchitra Onkom
Award winning author of ‘Creating Sustainable World Peace
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect.”
Chief Seattle, 1854
(native title)