Hope, Faith, Love, Belief, Beauty: The journey of one artist to be seen and heard and read

C. S. Lewis

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Unknown, but also attributed to Les Brown, a motivational speaker. Commonly attributed to C. Lewis, but never with a primary source listed. The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. You are a soul. You have a body. Commonly attributed to Mere Christianity , where it is not found. Earliest reference seems to be an unsourced attribution to George MacDonald in an issue of the Quaker periodical The British Friend.

Has been cited as being in Mere Christianity , but it is not to be found there. We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love? If you believe in peace , act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example.

If you want to change the world , change yourself. There are three lessons I would write, — Three words — as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, — No night but hath its morn. Where'er thy bark is driven, — The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, — Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.

Not love alone for one, But men, as man, thy brothers call; And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, — Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else wert blind. Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.

The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Before our lives divide for ever, While time is with us and hands are free , Time, swift to fasten and swift to sever Hand from hand, as we stand by the sea I will say no word that a man might say Whose whole life's love goes down in a day; For this could never have been; and never, Though the gods and the years relent, shall be. Is it worth a tear, is it worth an hour, To think of things that are well outworn? Of fruitless husk and fugitive flower, The dream foregone and the deed forborne?

Though joy be done with and grief be vain, Time shall not sever us wholly in twain; Earth is not spoilt for a single shower; But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn. I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew, You had grown strong as the sun or the sea. But none shall triumph a whole life through: For death is one, and the fates are three. At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death; Death could not sever my soul and you, As these have severed your soul from me. You have chosen and clung to the chance they sent you, Life sweet as perfume and pure as prayer.

But will it not one day in heaven repent you? Will they solace you wholly, the days that were? Will you lift up your eyes between sadness and bliss, Meet mine, and see where the great love is, And tremble and turn and be changed? Content you; The gate is strait; I shall not be there. The pulse of war and passion of wonder, The heavens that murmur, the sounds that shine, The stars that sing and the loves that thunder, The music burning at heart like wine, An armed archangel whose hands raise up All senses mixed in the spirit's cup Till flesh and spirit are molten in sunder — These things are over, and no more mine.

These were a part of the playing I heard Once, ere my love and my heart were at strife; Love that sings and hath wings as a bird, Balm of the wound and heft of the knife. Fairer than earth is the sea, and sleep Than overwatching of eyes that weep, Now time has done with his one sweet word, The wine and leaven of lovely life.

Sweet is true love though given in vain , in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. My new eBook is here Get it today. We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

All I have is a sense of duty toward all people and an attachment to those with whom I have become intimate. Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity. Ralph Nader Click to tweet. Angry people want you to see how powerful they are.

Loving people want you to see how powerful you are. Mahatma Gandhi Click to tweet. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein Click to tweet.

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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King Jr. We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy Click to tweet. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. No religion is higher than humanity. Abdul Sattar Edhi This is one of my favorite quote.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa Click to tweet. Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. Bennett Click to tweet. Be a good human being, a warm hearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Dalai Lama Click to tweet. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller Click to tweet. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important. The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values. My friends, our challenge today is not to save Western civilization — or Eastern, for that matter.

All civilization is at stake, and we can save it only if all peoples join together in the task. Kofi Annan Click to tweet. In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share. Barack Obama On Japan, March 17, This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family, and the people around you. You must not lose faith in humanity. The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.

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Because of our involvement in humanity we must be concerned about every human being. Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. You may also like inspirational quotes motivational quotes love quotes happiness quotes life quotes. One liners, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds, tattoos, SMS, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, etc.

Kindness is the best form of humanity. Doris Lee Click to tweet. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. Norman Schwarzkopf Click to tweet. More short quotes See also: You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. Rosa Parks Click to tweet. We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility. This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

Our most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams. One of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection. The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. We must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph. Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it.

We must protect it by changing the world. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world. To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

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Aung San Suu Kyi. Stand for something or you will fall for anything. I was not tired physically … No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world — introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably — that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Neil Gaiman Click to tweet. Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them — these are the best guides for men. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society. My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

Kahlil Gibran Click to tweet. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice… Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. Kurt Vonnegut Click to tweet. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. And when I do something good, I feel good. While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

I am not religious. I am a humanist because human beings are more important than dogma an traditions. The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe. Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose.

Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking. Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Malala Yousafzai Click to tweet. Hope is like peace.

It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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