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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
-- The Dalai Lama

"We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home."
-- The Dalai Lama

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
-- The Dalai Lama

"It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live."
-- The Dalai Lama

"I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment."
--
The Dalai Lama

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.
-- Ram Dass (1890-1925)

"Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death. "
-- Eugene V. Debs

 

* It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.
-- Eugene V. Debs

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain."
-- Emily Dickinson

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
-- Annie Dillard

A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan that is put off. Do the best you can, but do it today.
-- John Di Frances

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
-- Laertius Diogenes

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

 

"Change starts when someone sees the next step."
-- William Drayton


Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
-- Henry Drummond

 

“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
-- W. E. B. DuBois

 

"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will."
-- Ecclesiastes

 
"You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit."
-- Marian Wright Edelman

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
-- Albert Einstein

* "Only a life lived for others is worth living."
-- Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein

"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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
--
Albert Einstein

"It is never too late to be what we might have been."
-- George Eliot

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
-- George Eliot

 

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
-- Edward Everett

Speak, move, act in peace…
-- Francois Fenelon (1651-1715)

 

* “...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn’t work...We’re all so connected. We can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can."
-- Ralph Fiennes

* Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon.
-- Saint Francis of Assisi

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-- Benjamin Franklin

* Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
-- Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -
--
Paulo Freire

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
-- Erich Fromm

* "Be the change you want to see in the world."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

"If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

The future depends on what we do in the present.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

The future depends on what we do in the present.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

 

"You have to do the right thing... You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
-- Shakti Gawain

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution."
-- Kahil Gibran

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
-- Kahlil Gibran

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
-- Loretta Girzaitis (b. 1920)

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
-- Vincent Van Gogh

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.
-- Justice Arthur Joseph Goldberg

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
-- Natalie Goldberg

 

* "Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love."
-- Doris Haddock (Granny D)

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
-- George Halas

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.
-- Edward Everett Hale

 

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.
-- Herbie Hancock

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh (b. 1926)

"We often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek to become more aware of what causes anger and separation, and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh (b. 1926)

 

* “Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul”
-- George Harrison

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
-- Vaclav Havel

"Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life."
-- Ed Hays

Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.
-- Robert M. Hensel

Make a habit of two things--to help, or at least, to do no harm.
-- Hippocrates

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
-- Hippocrates

If you love an idea, an idea that is larger than yourself, then love it with all your heart; love it enough to act on it. Love it enough to put it into the world. . Don't give up until you do.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder of the Temple of Understanding

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
-- Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

Instead of proving to be "labor saving devices," our machines create more work for more of us to do! Instead of the "problem" of leisure, we face an array of problems caused by overwork; families that erode because we have less time to be at home, troubled and troubling young people who share little or no time with adults, anemic communities bled dry of the people's time, their life's blood, and institutions that focus solely on teaching people how to work rather than how to live together freely.
-- Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

 

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

"This is my chosen fast: to loosen all the bonds that bind humans unfairly, to let the oppressed go free, to break every yoke. Share your bread with the hungry, take the homeless into your homes, clothe the naked when you see him/her, do not turn away from people in need. Then cleansing life shall break forth like the dawn, and your wounds shall soon be healed. Your triumph shall go before you and your Lord’s glory shall be your rearguard. Then you shall call and the Lord will answer. "
-- Isaiah 57

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