Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
--Harry Chapin
But you can travel on ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
(lyrics, W.O.L.D.).
--Harry Chapin
I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
--Harry Chapin
I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
--Harry Chapin
If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world? (his epitaph)
--Harry Chapin
It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.
--Harry Chapin
It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.
--Harry Chapin
No straight lines make up my life;
And all my roads have bends;
There's no clear-cut beginnings;
And so far no dead-ends.
--Harry Chapin
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
--Harry Chapin
Reality is only just a word.
--Harry Chapin
Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire,
For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.
--Harry Chapin
To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
--Harry Chapin
We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.
--Harry Chapin
When in doubt, do something.
--Harry Chapin
When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.
--Harry Chapin
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