Byron Katie Quotes

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

In all circumstances in the world - even the most difficult circumstances - we need to push for dialogue.

Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

If we recognize the interconnectedness of the changes our planet needs, we become true solutionaries and our united power is unparalleled.

We only get one planet.

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.

I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.

We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.