"Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are." -- Hafsat Abiola

 

How can one not speak about war, poverty and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
-- Isabel Allende

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
-- Henri Frederick Amiel

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
-- Henri Amiel

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."
-- Sir James M. Barrie

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
--Wendell Berry

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?
-- William Blake

 

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity. -- Elise Boulding

 

 

"All that a pacifist can undertake - but is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate."
-- Vera Brittain

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
-- Vera Brittain

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it...Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
-- Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
--Buddha

In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of executioners.
--Albert Camus

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
-- Pablo Casals

"Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence."
-- Confucius

"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."
-- Confucius.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
-- Marie Curie

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

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
-- Peter F. Drucker.

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

 

"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

 

"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

 

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

"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

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

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

"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

"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."
-- William James

"Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed."
-- Gerald Jampolsky

 

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly." -- Thomas Jefferson

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
-- Ken Keyes, Jr.

"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
-- Soren Kierkegaard

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

 

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.   "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."
-- Sheldon Kopp.

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
-- Matthew 7:12

"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."
-- Mildred McAfee

"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."
-- Anne McCaffrey.

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past -- but you sure do change the future."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
At all times you can
To all the people you can
As long as you can."
-- Bernard Meltzer (My Golden Rule)

"If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."
--Jean Baptiste Moliere

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche

"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

"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

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
-- Rumi

"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

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
-- Swami Sivanada

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
-- Freya Stark

 

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." --Archbishop Desmond Tutu

 

"When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward."
-- Swedish proverb.

"Give help rather than advice."
-- Luc de Vauvenargues

 

"My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world." -- Faye Wattleton

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
-- George Washington

"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

"Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways."
--Zadik

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