Michael Elmore-Meegan Zitate

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“Your energy is powered by your thoughts, negative thoughts drain you, loving thoughts fill you with love”

“All life, every living thing is a word for God in His mystery.”

“The deepest and most enduring thirst common to us all is the desire for love and happiness. You and I spend a great part of our lives struggling towards self-fulfilment and joy, while at the same time we are very occupied in the daily responsibilities to our families, our work, the countless little things that absorb our time.”

“Everything changes when you wake up in the morning and decide to own today. It will not be taken from you by anyone else, it will be yours”

““The ICROSS philosophy has always been that change occurs by empowering women. You can only empower women by educating them. This was a part of our policy twenty years before it became development sector.”

“You may call God truth, you may call God hope. But the best name for God is love.”

“There is no such thing as change in international development, unless it belongs to the people who want to change”

“Anxiety is often related to having to perform and act an acceptable role in order to be admitted into relationships.”

“If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.”

“Waterborne diseases kill millions every year, over 1.3 billion people have no clean water. ICROSS has provided safe drinking water to over 300 000 people through innovative ground breaking research spanning three decades”

“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.”