"I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti."

-- Paul Farmer

#Thinking Quotes #Haiti Quotes #Looking Forward Quotes

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”
“Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.”
“Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).”
“Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.”
“Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?”
“Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.”

Source : "Beyond world peace: Getting through the dreaded question-and-answer portion of #MissUniverse". www.yahoo.com. January 26, 2015.
“Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.”
“You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, youâ€™ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. Youâ€™ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, youâ€™ll weep for nothing, pine for whatâ€™s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.”

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