[NEohioPAL] **Thought for the Day**

[Edward Niam]

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on
the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of
compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our
lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.
If we remember those times and places – and there are so many – where people
have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least
the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different
direction. 

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some
grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and
to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is
bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

~Howard Zinn

American Professor, Author and Social Activist


Tai Chi Institute USA
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