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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Have confidence in the truth, although you may not be able to comprehend it, although you may suppose its sweetness to be bitter, although you may shrink from it at first. Trust in the Truth...Have faith in the Truth and live it.
Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem...
Emmet Fox
The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
Albert Einstein
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan -- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettsyburg Address
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination.
Mahatma Gandhi
So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else' opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.
Buckminster Fuller
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
American poet Robert Frost
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, or what he can do, nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.
Robert Fulghum
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
Louis Nizer
Without the assistance of the Divine Being---I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.
Joan Borysenko
Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.
Mother Teresa
We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
Mother Teresa
You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
Albert Einstein
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, No hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which is to look out Christ's compassion to the world; Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.
St. Teresa of Avila
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
It is in the silence of the heart that God speaks.
Mother Teresa
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Thomas J. Watson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
Albert Einstein
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
Elie Wiesel
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. John F. Kennedy There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
Thomas Jefferson
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Consider that people are like tea bags. They don't know their own strength until they get into hot water.
Dan McKinnon
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
Shakti Gawain
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
St. Francis De Sales
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
You will find, as you look back upon your life, the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.
Ram Dass
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. Joan Baez I feel that my mission is, wherever I am, to express my feeling about the importance of kindness, compassion, and the true sense of brotherhood. I practice these things. It gives me more happiness, more success. If I practiced anger or jealousy or bitterness, no doubt my smile would disappear.
The Dalai Lama
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
William James
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exup»ry, The Little Prince
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something that needs our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
