Leila Josefowicz Quotes

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I can't let darkness be what guides my decisions. I can't let that be what guides how I treat people. I can't let that be what drives my art, either.

I want to enlighten the world. We all need it. We need love and light.

At the end of the day, we should all be trying to spread love and positivity, and that's what faith continues to do for me. It keeps me balanced.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Peace begins with a smile.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

For the cruel man who would tear out the heart with which I live, I do not cultivate thistles. I cultivate a white rose.

Bless the doves—we need more of them.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

There's so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.

I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world.

One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.