#sit

Some people gave up on their wishes and dreams because they’d been disappointed too many times in life and just didn’t have the courage to keep hoping things would change ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#positive-thinking #change

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982) ↗

— Jeffrey R. Holland

#speech

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ↗

— George Sand

#give #guard #hesitation #how #kindness

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#longing-for-peace #war #worlds #diversity

We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough. ↗

— sera break

#diversity #inner-divinity #self-respect #spirituality #respect

Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song. ↗

— Jack Malebranche

#gay #politics #diversity

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. ↗

— Betty Smith

#strength #strength-through-adversity #survival #survival

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong. ↗

— Robert James Brown

#environmental-justice #nature #social-justice #nature

It is never too late to give up your prejudices ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#open-mindedness #diversity

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#peace #tolerance #diversity