Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Interpretation
Be a source of tranquility and positivity to inspire similar behaviors in others.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in creating a peaceful world. Rather than waiting for others to change or for peace to manifest externally, individuals should embody the peace they desire, becoming examples of harmony and goodwill that can influence those around them.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about community service to emphasize personal responsibility.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.
You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
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