There are victories of the soul and spirit. Because of these, sometimes even when you lose, you win. --Elie WieselThose who are at war with others at not at peace with themselves. --William Hazlitt
The big problems of our growing up are not limited by time, culture, or geography. We share our wonder and confusion: Who am I? Why am I here? Does it matter? Ultimately I hope we all answer [...]: Yes, it does. We do matter. What we do matters. And that is both a challenge and a joy. --Madeleine L’Engle, Troubling a Star
I still find each day too short for all that thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books want to read, and all the friends I want to see. --John Burrough
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? --Robert D. Ballard
Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy
A sure way to lift oneself up is by helping to lift someone else. --Booker T. Wahsington
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught. --J. C. Watts
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. [...] There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. --Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
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. --Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. [...] This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race. --Clarence Jordan
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the struggling, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. --George Washington Carver
I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something... --Edmund Everett Hale
Yesterday is but today’s memory; tomorrow is today’s dream. --Kahlil Gibran
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. [...] Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. --Wilfred Peterson, This Week
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. --Thomas J. Watson
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time... --Charles Bukowski
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. --Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby, Procrastinator’s Success Kit
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
Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars. --Violeta Parra
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. --Sir J. Lubbock
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. --Brooke Medicine Eagle
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. --Jerry Chin
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warmly upon your face, the rains fall softly upon your fields, and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand. --Irish blessing
What’s madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? --Theodore Roethke
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. --Joseph Fort Newton
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. --Mahatma Gandhi
To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and to never stop fighting. --e. e. cummings
This above all: to thine own self be true; and it follows, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. --Shakespeare
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; [...] a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. --Ecclesiastes, The Bible
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