Heroes for a Culture of Peace

Pablo Casals
(1877-1973)

Spanish Cellist,
Wrote music for UN Anthem for world peace

1963 Presidential Medal of Freedom

birthdate: December 29
birthplace:
El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain

QUOTES

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Music will save the world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.


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