On the Eve of Blog Blast

Posted: Thursday, November 03, 2011 by Travis Cody in
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I did it last year, and I've done it again this year.  I'll do it again next year and that makes it a tradition and part of Blog Blast.  So yeah, I made a graphic for it.

I've been counting down the days to this year's Blog Blast for Peace with peace quotes.  Here is a recap of the quotes I chose.

5 October 2011
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."  Eleanor Roosevelt

6 October 2011 
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."  Dag Hammarskjold

7 October 2011 
"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."  Dwight D Eisenhower 

8 October 2011 
“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”  Theodore Roosevelt

9 October 2011
“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey."  Steve Maraboli

10 October 2011
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."  John F Kennedy

11 October 2011
"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."  John F Kennedy

12 October 2011
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."  Sydney Smith

13 October 2011
"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."  Hubert H Humphrey

14 October 2011
"Time is free, but it's priceless.  You can't own it, but you can use it.  You can't keep it, but you can spend it.  Once you've lost it, you can never get it back."  Harvey MacKay

15 October 2011
"It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life."  Bilbo Baggins

16 October 2011
"Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."  Unknown

17 October 2011
"Honor the past.  Live in the present.  Create the future."  Unknown

18 October 2011
"The most important trip you take in life is meeting people halfway."  Henry Boye

19 October 2011
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

20 October 2011
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."  Lao Tzu

21 October 2011
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."  Mahatma Gandhi.

22 October 2011
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."  Dr Martin Luther King Jr

23 October 2011

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."  Adlai Stevenson

24 October 2011
"Armageddon is not around the corner.  This is only what the people of violence want us to believe.  The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future."  Michael Palin

25 October 2011
"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."  Annie Lennox

26 October 2011 
"Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around."  Unknown

27 October 2011 
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."  Leo Buscaglia

28 October 2011 
"What is the quality of your intent...My intent will be evident in the results."  Thurgood Marshall

29 October 2011
"To love is to risk not being loved in return.  To hope is to risk pain.  To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."  Unknown

30 October 2011
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."  Albert Einstein

31 October 2011
"One voice, one subject, one day."  Mimi Lenox

1 November 2011
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."  Thomas Jefferson

2 November 2011
"In Republics, the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."  James Madison 

3 November 2011
"Diversity need not be divisive."  
I don't know if anyone has been formally credited with saying this, but I say it so I'll call it my quote.


I hope to see all of your fantastic Peace Globes and read your thoughtful words about Peace. 

Dona Nobis Pacem

2 comments:

  1. Vinny "Bond" Marini says:
    03 November, 2011 06:39

    Amazing...I have not been as involved this year as in years past. You should be proud.

  1. Mimi Lenox says:
    08 April, 2012 20:00

    I must have missed this post in the frenzy of BlogBlast. Awesome to see them in one post. I love it! This graphic is a separate peace globe (#2402)in the gallery and has also been placed in the sidebar as a special link. Thank you!!!

    Peace

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