Henry David Thoreau
"Things do not change; we change."
Bertrand Russell
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Amelia Earhart
"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
Albert Camus
"It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning."
Epictetus
"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
Martin Luther King,, Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
Cesar Chavez
"There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence."
Saint Teresa of Avila
"Be gentle with others and stern with yourself."
Sir Isaac Newton
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
The Talmud
"Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."
Michelangelo
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
Francis Bacon
"It is impossible to love and be wise."
William Shakespeare
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
Joseph Addison
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A useless life is an early death."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing on a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
Thomas Merton
"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?"
Abraham Maslow
"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."
Vaclev Havel
"Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times."
Robert Burns
"Oh would some power the gift give us to see ourselves as others see us."
Robert Byrne
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Blaise Pascal
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
William Wordsworth
"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
Meister Eckhart
"God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtrac-
tion."
Robert Browning
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"
Barbara Jordan
"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse ~ what I am is beyond my control ~ for the philosophy of responsi-
bility."