Rachel Corrie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Dream #Giving Up #Believe
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive.... Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with
-- Rachel Corrie

#Military #People #Trying
We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Beautiful #Strong #People
I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances â€“ which I also havenâ€™t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Thinking #People #Wish
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Mother #Teacher #Distance
We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Threat #Please
People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Country #Thinking #Laughing
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
-- Rachel Corrie

#People #Systematic #Destruction
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
-- Rachel Corrie

#Smell #Apples #Sauce

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

Rachel Corrie famous quotes

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