8 Quotes by Daoud Hari

I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.

Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it.

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.

The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.