“If You Dwell on Anything Negative, you lose Peace of Mind”
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
John Burroughs
"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.”
Alva Myrdal
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best”
Duke Ellington
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
Horace Mann
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
Albert Einstein
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity."
Herbie Hancock
“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”
Warren G. Harding
“Some part of a mistake is always correct.”
Savielly Tartakower
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming'.”
Haile Selassie
“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”
Alexander Hamilton
“What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”
Thomas Merton
“Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.”
Igor Stravinsky
"You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X
“The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”
George Washington
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
John Adams
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
Mildred Norman Ryder better known as Peace Pilgrim
“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
James Madison
“When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.”
Bayard Rustin
“Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.”
Louisa May Alcott
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.”
James Monroe
“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
Bishop Desmond TuTu
“Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.”
John Tyler
"Talent is equally distributed, opportunity is not”
Leila Janah
“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”
Harry S Truman
“Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
Khalil Gibran
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford
“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.”
George C. Marshall
“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.”
Dr. Martin Luther Jr.
“If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.”
Ida B. Wells
“The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work”
His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.”
Crazy Horse
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
James Allen
“There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.”
Ruth Benedict
“Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman.”
Elizabeth Freeman
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”
William Jennings Bryan
“Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.”
Andrei Sakharov
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."
T. S. Eliot
“Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.”
James Allen
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
Ayn Rand
“Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.”
Pierre Curie
“Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.”
Winslow Homer
“One person can make a difference. Let that difference start with you.”
Cathy Watkins
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”
Eugene O'Neill
"How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?"
John Wesley Carlos
'“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
Thomas Paine
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Jack Kerouac
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
Booker T. Washington
“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
Sir Muhammad Iqbal
"You can't change the music of your soul."
Katharine Hepburn
"Nothing can stop the power of a committed and determined people to make a difference in our society. Why? Because human beings are the most dynamic link to the divine on this planet."
John Lewis
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
Walt Whitman
“Peace is our gift to each other.”
Elie Wiesel
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.”
Luther Standing Bear
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"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin