Quotes

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Admitting to a problem is the first step toward finding a solution. Confessing a sin is the beginning of redemption.”
- John Perkins

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
- Malcolm X

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
- Robert F. Kennedy

“The greatest power is the ability to win without having to fight.”
- Ketan J. Patel

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. ”
- Karl Marx

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein

“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

“Responsibility requires freedom.”
- Amartya Sen

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
- St. Francis of Assisi

“Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.”
- Guy Kawasaki

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
- Arthur Shopenhauer

“A revolution is called for, certainly. But not a political, an economic, or even a technical revolution… What I propose is a spiritual revolution.”
- Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th Dalai Lama)

“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.”
- Jim Collins

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
- Ernest Hemingway

“Don’t agonize - organize.”
- Florence R. Kennedy

“The division between an ethical and a selfish approach to life is far more fundamental than the difference between the policies of the political right and the political left.”
- Peter Singer

“Don’t find fault; find a remedy.”
- Henry Ford

“You will be attacked and reviled for engaging in honest politics, but you must persevere. Lay down an investment in dukkha [suffering] and you will gain sukha [bliss].”
- A ninety-one-year-old Hsayadaw [holy teacher] of Sagaing, Burma, who taught Aung San Suu Kyi

“Freedom has a scent like the top of a new born baby’s head.”
- Bono

“Grasp no more than the hand will hold.”
- English Proverb

“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”
- Virginia Satir

“Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.”
- Roger Von Oech

“If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”
- Michelangelo

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“He that would govern others, first should be master of himself.”
- Philip Massinger

“The religion is easy… So be straight, follow the middle course…”
- Muhammad Abdullah of Quraysh (The Prophet)

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
- Rolf Hodgson

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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