“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
— Mother Teresa
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
— William Shakespeare
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
Mother Teresa
“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)
“I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion and I could die for that.”
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
— John Keats
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
— William Wordsworth
“I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.”
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”
— Sri Chinmoy
“Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.”
— Sri Chinmoy
“My God is love and sweetly suffers all.”
— Sri Aurobindo (Savitri)
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.”
— Sri Aurobindo
“True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
— Jalal-al-Din Rumi
“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.”
— Laozi
“At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.”
— Laozi
“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
— Socrates
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Love is the absence of judgement.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.”
— Walt Whitman
“In the faces of men and women, I see God.”
— Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
— Walt Whitman
“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw (Back to Methuselah)
” Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
– Martin Luther King – 1963
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.”
– Mahatma Gandhi – Young India 1924-1926 (1927), p. 1285
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
– Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954), by Louis Fischer, p.177
“To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.”
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by make-up a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”
– Albert Einstein, Letter to Alfred Kneser (7 June 1918); Doc. 560 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol. 8
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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