I am not here for me
I am not here to promote my ego
I am here to serve the Great Spirit
To be a voice for those afraid to speak
To be movement for those who
are stuck
I am here to reveal a mystery
To learn something new about
myself
-- Holly Near |  |
"We
live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to
me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING
the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and
ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and
not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over."
-- Liam
Neeson | 
|
Whoever
fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
| My
country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-- Thomas
Paine |  |
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Each person must live their
life as a model for others. Memories
of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
-- Rosa Parks
|
When
you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people
with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively.
Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
--
Norman Vincent Peale
 |
I'm not a do-gooder.
It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities
that I believe in.
-- Gregory
Peck
|
You
make a living by what you earn, but you make a life by what you give.
-- Lowell
Perry
"What
we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and
the world remains and
is immortal."
--Albert Pike
"Teach
me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others
show,
That mercy show to me."
-- Alexander Pope, The Universal Prayer,
1738
To
live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only
sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
-- Hugh Prather
"If
you think the efforts of one individual will be nothing, then you have never been
to bed with a mosquito".
~ Betty Reese
There
is no greater calling than to serve your Brother. And, no greater satisfaction
than to have done it well.
-- Walter Reuther
| 
|
Don't let yesterday use
up too much of today.
-- Will
Rogers |
"Let
a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones."
-- Shalom Rokeach
| The
motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace
is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
--Franklin
Delano Roosevelt |  |
It
is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-- J. K. Rowling
"Let
the beauty we love be what we do."
-- Rumi
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I
try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye
to injustice and need.
-- Susan
Sarandon *
When
you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens
up to you. |
"At
a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are
bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope
and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have
connected to strangers to try to put out a hand. "
-- Susan
Sarandon
I
think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never
studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for
an activist.
-- Susan
Sarandon
Listen
with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others
have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
- Larry Scherwitz
| We
must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden
our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the
right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease,
and not a part of the cure.
-- E.F.
Schumacher |  |
| 
|
"A
man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at
night and do it again the next day."
-- Albert
Schweitzer "The
purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others."
-- Albert Schweitzer
|
"Throughout
history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference
of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when
it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
-- Haile
Selassie
"Wherever
there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness"
-- Seneca
"A gift consists
not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
-- Seneca
There
is no short cut to a place worth going.
-- Beverly Sills
 | ...you
can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier
place every day
-- Alicia
Silverstone It's
important to see what we can do to make a difference, but it's more important
to me to do it every single day.
-- Alicia
Silverstone I've
gained so much confidence as a woman from figuring out that I don't want to be
destructive. I don't want to stomp through the world and be number one. I just
want to tread really lightly and not destroy anything. Hopefully, I can try to
mend some things. That's my goal.
-- Alicia
Silverstone |
"My
life has become about trying to find effective ways to be as responsible with
the choices I make -- in food, clothing and everything else. I don't want to be
responsible for the harm of any creature, person or animal."
-- Alicia
Silverstone
"Put your heart,
mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
-- Swami Sivanada
Let
be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns
… present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should
rest.
-- Sophocles (496-406BC)
The
only thing for a pacifist
to do is to find a substitute for war.
-- Freya Stark
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"I
am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so
terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they
fought slavery, fought for women to have the right
to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to
end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals
put an end to child labor and they gave us the five
day work week! What's to be ashamed of?"
-- Barbra
Streisand
|
We
are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
-- Anne Sophie Swetchine
"When
a blind man carries a lame man,
both go forward."
-- Swedish proverb.
May
you live all the days of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift
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