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Naiveté is what makes people daydream. Dreams help us get through the day and have hope and strive for the future. Without dreams there would be ho hope. Without hope, there would be nothing. …
I believe naïveté, in some way, is what gives us our edge. As we grow and become more realistic, we begin to realize our own limitations. We begin to accept that the impossible is sometimes impossible; thus we stop trying.
… As long as there is hope in someone’s mind, there is hope for the future …
… Sometimes, I cling to my naivety like a security blanket – for when I am no longer naive, I open myself to corruption.
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I am not going to say that the human race has guaranteed peace, love, and flowers in its future. I am not that naive. Can we at least try? …
We must drop violence and control of others so that we have a free hand to reach for peace. We cannot hold onto peace, if at the same time we are also holding onto violence and control …
Stranded in our own perceptions we can fall into the falsehood of seeking solace in others eyes.
Often the greatest obstacle in overcoming our limitations is the perceptions of those limitations.
Appearances-how deceptive; a preconceived assumption about someone else can be fatal.
At the point that you are affected by the world, you become susceptible to it.
When you grow up on the inside, you become vulnerable from the view of the outside.
Buying into the perceptions that others would lay upon us, do we see what others want us to see? …
Words are but crude metaphors that we use to describe the indescribable and the intangible.
Environments of prejudices not only exist in the general broad term “ethnic,” but also of categories of the social, economic, political, beliefs and many others.
… A society is often stronger and healthier when working as a whole, rather than as individual parts. …
This is the new millennium and we are still arguing about conflicts and ideals that we have been arguing about for decades or centuries. Hate is like a plague feeding upon its host — feeding until nothing remains but the diseased corpse of the host. … We cannot let these wrongs dictate the path of the future.
One of biggest evolutionary barriers as a society, which we have to overcome, is racism and the general feeling of superiority over others.
We will not be able to get rid of prejudices or stereotypes until all cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions are gone or resolved.
… Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and stigmas about another persons’ culture should not stand in the way of logical examination and discussion.
We will not agree. We may not understand; however, at the very minimum, we need to respect one another.