Quote-book

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same."

~Flavia

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

~Anais Nin

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

~Kahlil Gibran

"So long as there is one single person anywhere in the world who is denied his or her freedom, then none of us are free.  As long as there is exploitation which is taking place on our doorstep, in our own backyards, then we must all share the responsibility to get justice and freedom for the people concerned."

~John F. Kennedy

"All men desire peace but very few desire those things that make for peace."

~Thomas a Kempis

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes."

~Proust

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

"Never worry about numbers.  Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you."

~Mother Teresa

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

~John Wesley

"Remember your humanity and forget the rest."

~Albert Einstein

"The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye."

~Emmanuel Jal

"If many little people. . .in many little places. . .do many little deeds. . .They can change the face of the Earth."

~African Proverb

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

~Helen Keller

"I shall no longer ask myself if this or that is expedient, but only if it is right.  I shall do this, not because I am noble or unselfish, but because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a start that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.  I shall do this, because I cannot find it in me to do anything else.  I am lost when I balance this against that, I am lost when I ask if this is safe, I am lost when I ask if men will approve.  Therefore I shall try to do what is right, and to speak what is true."

~Alan Paton

"I dwell in possibility."

~Emily Dickinson

"Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way. . .but you can never say again that you did not know."

~William Wilberforce

"God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house.  God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives.  God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war.  God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them."

~Bono

"We must never adjust to an unjust world which lets children die needlessly."

~Marian Wright Edelman

"To the homeless, the poor, the beggar, the victim of AIDS and Alzheimer's, the old and the humble, the prisoners in their prison and the wanderers in their dreams, it is our sacred duty to stretch out our hand and say, 'In spite of what separates us, what we have in common is our humanity.'"

~Elie Wiesel

"There are 2 ways to live your life.  One as though nothing is a miracle.  The other as though everything is a miracle."

~Albert Einstein

"Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God."

~Robert W. Pierce

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."

~Mohandas Gandhi

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

"May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths and superficial relationships so that you may live deep within your heart.  May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.  May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation or war so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.  And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world so that you can do what others claim cannot be done."

~Francis of Assisi

"The generation that cannot be changed by the world is the generation that will change the world."

~Ron Luce

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

~Anais Nin

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."

~Albert Einstein

"All that I do in civil rights I consider a part of my ministry, because I think the gospel in its essence ministers to the whole man.  It is not enough to be concerned about the soul of man; you've got to be concerned about the body and the environmental conditions, which may scar the soul."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

"If there is to be peace in the world,

There must be peace among the nations.

If there is to be peace among the nations,

There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,

There must be peace between neighbors.

If there is to be peace between neighbors,

There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,

There must be peace in the heart."

~Lao Tzu

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

~Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"One man with conviction makes a majority."

~Edmund Burke

"There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.  There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want, and that they grow up in peace."

~Kofi Annan

"To love often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to give of one's self, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.  God is awake."

~Victor Hugo

"To thine own self be true."

~William Shakespeare

"There's something liberating about not pretending.  Dare to embarrass yourself.  Risk."

~Drew Barrymore

"Every spiritual master in every tradition talks about the significance of small things in a complex world.  Small actions in social life, small efforts in the spiritual life, small moments in the personal life.  All of them become great in the long run, the mystics say, but all of them look like little or nothing in themselves."

~Joan, Chittister, Order of Saint Benedict

"Carpe Diem" - seize the day - "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"

"I want to know how God created this world.  I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element.  I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."

~Albert Einstein

"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become."

~Ben Herbster

"You cannot place the divine truths directly into someone else's heart.  All you can do is place them on the heart, so when the heart breaks. . .they drop in."

~Hasidic Proverb

"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, talented, fabulous?'  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~Marianne Williamson

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

~Edmund Burke

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.  Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.  Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to speak up."

~Pastor Martin Niemoller

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

~Michelangelo

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove.  But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

"There are 2 ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.  The other is to walk around the whole world till we come back to the same place."

~G. K. Chesterton

"My Rules:  It's not enough to dream unless I'm willing to pursue it.  It's not enough to know what's right unless I'm strong enough to do it.  It's not enough to join the crowd to be acknowledged and accepted.  I must be true to my ideals even if I'm rejected.  It's not enough to learn the truth unless I also learn to live it.  I want to live the best life I can!"

"Seven Deadly Social Sins:
Politics without Principle
Wealth without Work
Commerce without Morality
Pleasure without Conscience
Education without Character
Science without Humanity
Worship without Sacrifice."

~Mohandas Gandhi

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all Ye need to know."

~John Keats

"You see things and say, 'why?'  But I dream things that never were; and I say 'why not?'"

~George Bernard Shaw

"The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.  We marry to assist each other in this task.  The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose."

~Leo Tolstoy

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,  courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.  Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.  Taking as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it, trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next."

"Esse Quam Videri" - to be, rather than to appear

". . .there is geometry in the vibrations of the plucked string. . .and music in the positioning of the celestial spheres. . ."

~Pythagoras

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels in an honest friend."

~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."

~Matthew Henry

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however, measured or far away."

~Henry David Thoreau

"O Lord, grant that I may desire Thee, and desiring Thee, seek Thee, and seeking Thee, find Thee, and finding Thee, be satisfied with Thee forever."

~St. Augustine

"Don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing."

~Michael Pritchard

"just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly"

"where you live should no longer determine whether you live"

~Bono

"May the road always rise up to meet you.  May the wind always be at your back.  May the sun shine warm upon your face, And the rain fall softly upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand."

~Irish Blessing

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"If I look at the mass, I will never act.  If I look at the one, I will."

~Mother Teresa

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.  The important thing is not to stop questioning."

~Albert Einstein

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:  freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

~Winston Churchill

"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, and to enter into the places of pain, to share in the brokenness, fear, confusion and anguish.  Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."

~Henri J. M. Nouwen