Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize speech

Highlights of the Nobel Peace Prize Speech of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Here is the whole texts.
Nobel Prize Speech

and these are the highlights that I am really impressed by.

"We are fortunate to be living in an age when social welfare and humanitarian assistance are recognize not only as desirable but necessary. I am fortunate to be living in an age when the fate of prisoners of conscience anywhere has become the concern of peoples everywhere, an age when democracy and human rights are widely, even if not universally, accepted as the birthright of all."

"Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one toward which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it asa a traveler in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation. Even if we do not achieve perfect peace on earth, because perfect peace is not of this earth, common endeavors to gain peace will unite individuals and nations in trust and friendship and help to make our human community safer and kinder."

"Of the sweets of adversity, and let me say that these are not numerous, I have found the sweetest, the most precious of all, is the lesson I learnt on the value of kindness. Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world. To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people."

"Ultimately our aim should be to create a world free from the displaced, the homeless and the hopeless, a world of each and every corner is a true sanctuary where the inhabitants will have the freedom and the capacity to live in peace. Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a vontribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness."

I am not a man who thinks the world peace, or even other people living around me, at any time. So I really admire those who think, act and live for other people's sake, like Aung San Suu Kyi.

She sais, "It (peace) is one toward which we must continue to journey".

Life is journey. So toward what are you traveling? Toward peace for Aung San Suu Kyi, toward money for some people, toward happiness for many people, and toward what for me.
The question came up to my mind, and went out.