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2519 Activist Quotes

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Actually Fear Give Liberated
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Beyond Darkness Deepest Fear
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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Does Effects Global Go
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Compassion Enemies Love May
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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.

Anything Going Maturity No-One
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Appetites Beings False Glorious
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Always Easy Feels Forgive
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
Never Practice Seen Separate
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I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Being Campaign Cheerleader Considered
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Ability Anything Key Lies
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Authenticity Because Enlightenment Everything
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Attract Capacity Circumstances Either
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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

Every EveryTime Finds Form
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Become Peak Psychotherapy Religion
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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Day House Inspirational Just
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Abnormal Away Death Half
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People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
Comfort Community Connection Crave
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Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.

Each Feelings Holy Inner
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It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Cost Fraction Prevent Than
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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

Dangerous Desperate Groups Large
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The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

Both Consciousness Determines Evolving
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War is just an effect, not a cause.

Cause Effect Just War
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We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
Experience Extent Focus Forgive
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Dot Landscape Life Romance
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We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Arms Before Bow Considerations
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To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

Education Sink deep Minds Generation
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You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Never Have unity Go Your way
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…Only an educated people, a skilled people, an enlightened people, can be a free people.

Educated people Skilled Enlightened
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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

Young people Economy Creative Imaginative
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Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

Leaders Front Listen Followers
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams

Dreams Person Rain Right
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Amount Foster Him Home
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Change Just Like Obligation
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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Anything Entitled Feel Struggle
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Help Just Money Never
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Act Against Credit Elected
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Become Best Children Convinced
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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Any Being Children College
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Service is what life is all about.
All About Life Service
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Service Rent Being Purpose
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You really can change the world if you care enough.
Change Can Care Really
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
Anybody Give Right Said
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

America Education Survival Today
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Children Much Stand Then
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

America Money Priorities Problem
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Best Day Every Keep
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Enough Genuine Hear Learn
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Consent Feel Give Inferior
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Better Community Education Found
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The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Better Challenge Community Evoke
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