Michael Elmore-Meegan: Trending quotes (page 3)

“If a young mother has a job as a secretary in a company trying to cut expenses, where they start giving her the work of two secretaries and making extra demands on her, she will do all she can to please her employers. In fact, they are causing her to worry, hurry to work and rush home late to her expectant family. Thus, pressure and demands in a business setting lead to anxiety and tension at home. This is what begins to happen in our civilization when we put profit before people, and getting work done before the feelings of those we work with.”

“When you are defeated it is your own attitude that is wrong.”

“Be quiet enough to know what to say with your actions. Never limit yourself, live the impossible, always step beyond yourself. This is what you were born to be, to become light in a world on great need. We may not be the solution, but are part of the solution.”

“It is in crisis we find ourselves, so when we are broken then this light is nearest to us.”

“That someday there will be no them and us. There will be no colour and no differences between us. There will be only one human family working together.”

“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most loved and cherished.”

“The biggest lie and dishonesty about change or the impact of projects is created by the lords of poverty who profit from the business and industry of aid.”

“To be full of things is to be empty of what matters. To be empty of things is to be full of freedom.”

“People can’t eat our pity, dehydrated children can’t drink our sorrow nor can a child be educated by our anger at injustice. No one has ever been lifted out of poverty by us being overwhelmed or shocked. The only thing that ends poverty is our actions.”