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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...because it is the quality which guarantees allothers."

- Winston Churchill

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

- T.S. Eliot

"Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only

what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

- Lewis Cass

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come."

- Victor Hugo, Author (1802-1885)

"None of us can change our yesterdays, but we can change our tomorrows."

- Unknown

"Forget injuries, never forget kindness."

- Confucius

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson





"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

- Emily P. Bissell

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

- Epictetus

"Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know. The only ones among you who will betruly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

- Albert Schweitzer

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

- Joseph Chilton Pierce

"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested."

- E. M. Forster

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."

- Robert H. Shaffer

"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."

- Jim Rohn

"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything."

- Marva N. Collins, educator

"Whatever you can do, or think you can, begin it. Boldness has power, and genius, and magic in it"

- Goethe



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“If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.”

- Julia Soul

“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; educationis life itself.”

- John Dewey

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."

- Winston Churchill

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set

of attitudes."

- Hugh Downs

“Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do

not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”

- Chuang Tzu

"Love cannot remain by itself-it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action isservice."

- Mother Teresa

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.





“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing

lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

- Lao Tzu

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the

only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

- Anais Nin

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

- Thomas Henry Huxley

"Do what you can, with what you have wherever you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"He who considers too much will perform little."

- Schiller

"The good that men do lives after them."

- Ruth Gordon

"If there be any truer measure of a person than by what he/she does, it must be by what he/she gives."

- Robert South



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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moments of comfort and convenience, but

where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his

successes.”

-John Dewey

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out againstinjustice, 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 resistance."

- Robert Kennedy

"Success is a matter of not quitting and failure is a matter of giving up too soon."

- Robert H. Schuller

"People think that if they were rich they would contribute to charities. My experience has been if youdon't start giving away your money when you have very little, you won't do it when you have a lot."

- Robert Bainum

"People only see what they are prepared to see"

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make yourself necessary to someone."


"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."


"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius





"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to

understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen."

- Loretta Girzartis

"The opposite of love is not hate--it is indifference."

- Joe L. Wheeler

"Serving the needs of others is the only legitimate business in the world today."

- A.P. Giannini, Founder, Bank of America

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

- Albert Pine

"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."

- Alfred North Whitehead

"It just seems to me that as long as we are both here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the

planet, rather than divide it."

- Alice Walker

"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find

out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice

and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they

oppress."

- Frederick Douglass

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson



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"It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself."

- Charles Dudley Warner

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

- Confucius

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute."

- Charles Darwin

"If I could give people just one shred of advice, it is: Be Kind."

- Ann Landers

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."

- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to

acquire."

- Anwar el-Sadat

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."

- Benjamin Disraeli

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view,

and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him thewords:"And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses!

- Abraham LincolnSeptember 30, 1859 in an address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society

"Four things come not back--the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglectedopportunity."

- Arabian proverb





"What we learn to do, we learn by doing."

- Aristotle

"People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to

have done them."

- Bernard de Fontenelle

"A man's capacity to earn is limited only by his capacity to learn, his willingness to produce, hisreadiness to serve."

- Botcher

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"If you are giving because you want to solve social problems, that's philanthropy. If you are giving for

the poor and hurting because you love them, that's charity."

- Bruce Ritter

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their

neutrality."

- Dante

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something, and because Icannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do."

- Edward Everett Hale, Writer

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...you must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt



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"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live

together and if we are to live together we have to talk."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

- Thomas H. Huxley

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth-and that we have no

way of knowing when our time is up-that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was theonly one we had."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926- )

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, atall the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

- John Wesley

"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment: we can start now, start slowly changing the

world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justicestraight away."

- Anne Frank

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

- James Baldwin

"One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Make a career of humanity...and you will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.





"Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more

than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work."

- William Arthur Ward

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

- Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

"What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible."

- Theodore Roethke, poet

"Heroes are the people who do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, regardless of the

consequences."

- Unknown

"Violence is not the answer."

- Paul Murphy

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness."

- Mark Twain

"Learn to be a radiant human being and then shine on others."

- Sark

"Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do."

- Elias L. Magoon

"The world belongs to the energetic."




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"Nothing can be done except little by little."

- Charles Baudelaire

"Don't just be good. Be good for something."

- Unknown

"Power is the ability to do good things for others."

- Brooke Astor

"Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."

- Unknown

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"A great man is always willing to be little."

- Ralph W. Emerson

"Every man is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive, and if he or she

does not do it, it will never be done."

- Dr. Benjamin E. Mays

"That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of

love"

- William Wordsworth

"All progress occurs because people dare to be different."

- Harry Millner





"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive

ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

- Plato

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

- William James

“Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs.”

-Proverbs 19:11

"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

- John Ruskin

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in

considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them-every day begin the task

anew."

- Francis de Sales

“Courage is freedom”

- Seneca

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

- Harry F. Banks

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles

before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

- Bertie C. Forbes



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"Corporation's must become actively involved in solving the social problems of America, and develop

practical means of giving human needs the same status as profit."

- Walter A. Haas, Jr.

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.”

- Robert J. Lumsden

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."

- Mother Teresa

"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy

and agreeable."

- Pythagoras

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest

compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find

the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.”

- David Joseph Schwartz

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is

necessary."

- Margaret Cousins

"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I

never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

- Albert Schweitzer





"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving

creates love."

- Lao Tzu

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and

appreciating heart."

- Henry Clay

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt withthe heart.”

-Helen Keller

"Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if thenext step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore

him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to self-reliance for the

hungry and spiritually starving millions?"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond

measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be

brilliant, gorgeous, fabulous and talented?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.Playing small doesn’t serve the world. It doesn’t help anyone to shrink so that other people don’t feel

insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us."

- Nelson Mandela

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself inthe slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

- Albert Einstein

“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. “

- Abraham Lincoln

"My religion is to live and die without regret.”

- Milarepa, Buddhist Saint



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"Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and

acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no

cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule."

- Milarepa

"Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly off.

Dwell alone and you shall find a friend.

Take the lowest place and you shall reach the highest.Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

Renounce all worldly goals and you shall reach the highest goal."

- Milarepa

"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

- Edmund Burke

“For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.”

- Proverbs 24:20

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let each man march to his own rhythm, however measured, or far away.”

- H.D. Thoreau

“I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever

courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe

and are acting from.”

- William Faulkner





“Hope is the poor man's bread.”

- George Herbet

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe thattomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without

this comfort, be insupportable.”

- Samuel Johnson

“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few

are reduced so low as that.”

- William Hazlitt

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”

- Jean Kerr

“Hope--it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength andyour greatest weakness. “

- The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded

“I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not

oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”

- Thomas Jefferson

“In this uncertain space between birth and death--we need hope as surely as we need food and water,

love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steeland concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger

than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the

terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.”

- by T.G.S.R.



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“While there's life, there's hope!”

- Ancient Proverb

“Never deprive someone of hope--it may be all they have.”

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

- from The Shawshank Redemption

“Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to

see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an

active effort.”

- Walter Anderson

“Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.”

- Proverbs 24:14

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of

dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”

- Lao Tzu

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.”

- Shunryu Suzuki

“To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

- Chuang-tzu





“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who

dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”

- Chuang Tzu

“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no

permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

- Chuang Tzu

“The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grapsed, the words are forgotten. Wherecan I find a man who has forgotten the words? He is the one I would like to talk to.”

- Chuang Tzu

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the

continuation of each of these people.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a preciousgift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and

happiness to ourselves and others.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

- Gautama Buddha

“The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.”

- Gautama Buddha

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

- Gautama Buddha



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“You only lose what you cling to.”

- Gautama Buddha

“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.”

- Proverbs 11:2

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ("It is only with the heart that

one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.")

- from"Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince)

"Of all the words of tongue or pen, no sadder are these..."It might have been."

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

- Lou Holtz

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

- Bertrand Russell

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

- Lena Horne

“The value of people and things truly depends on their setting.”

- from the film Ugetsu monogatari

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God'skindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

- Mother Teresa





“Laughter is an instant vacation.”

- Milton Berle

“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become moreextraordinary because of it.”

- Robertson Davies

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive,

and you will be forgiven.”

- Luke 6:37

"Lord, free me of myself so I can please you."

- Michaelangelo

“To change one’s life; start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.”

- William James

"Pursue life, don't just live it."

- MEM

“Life is an absolute miracle. Sometimes just thinking about it brings me tears of joy.”

- MEM



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