Brian Eno Quotes

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

After a storm comes a calm.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Today is a new day for the land.

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Half of all civil wars are post conflict relapses.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world

I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.