..?Quotes?..
"Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene."
Epictetus
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the reult."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Mother Teresa
"There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment, and still be at peace.. To be such a person or to witness anyone at this moment of transcendent presence is to know that what is human is linked, by a daring compassion, to what is divine. During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world, I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebrations. Because whatever the consequences, people standing side by side have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that- which is the foundation of activism."
-Alice Walker
"No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself."
Henry David Thoreau
"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
" Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
Helen Keller
"Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality. "
Emily Dickinson
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."
Helen Keller
"What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."
Mother Teresa
"We do whatever we can to benefit others without seeing ourselves as helpers and the others as the helped. This is the spirit of non-self."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Most people think that courage is the absence of fear. The absence of fear is not courage; the absence of fear is some kind of brain damage. Courage is the capacity to go ahead in spite of the fear, or in spite of the pain. When you do that, you will find that overcoming that fear will not only make you stronger but will be a big step forward toward maturity."
M. Scott Peck
"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."
Norman Vincent Peale
"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."
Will Henry
"What is to give light must endure burning."
Viktor Frankl
"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead."
Anna Cummins
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Alice Walker
"The opportunity to practice brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being."
Jane Wyman
"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 never stop fighting."
E.E. Cummings
"Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand."
St. Francis of Assisi
"Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?"
M. Scott Peck
"Just like moons and like suns,
With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise."
Maya Angelou
"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."
Albert Rubinstein
"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake."
-AAnonymous
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
-Virginia Woolf
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-Robert Byrne
"You, who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by
And so
Become yourself
Because the past
Is just a good-bye"
-Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"and i drove out of there with no one behind me feeling funny and free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide i laughed as i said it this is my situation it's not pictures or privilege its just self preservation i don't want you to feel any obligation would it be so funny to be free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide we act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions"
-Indigo Girls, Reunion