Inspirational

Quotes

 

 

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.  For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.  We all breathe the same air.  We all cherish our children's future.  And we are all mortal."

            -- John F. Kennedy, 1963

 

"The world is not divided into sheeps and goats.  Not all things are black nor all things white.  It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories.  Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes.  The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects.  The sooner we learn this concerning sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex."

            -- Alfred Kinsey

 

"If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities...the expression of love...then life itself loses its meaning."

            -- Harvey Milk, openly gay mayor assassinated in 1978

 

"No one can put a chain around the ankle of another without at last finding the other fastened about his or her own neck."

            -- Frederick Douglass, 1883

 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

            -- Mahatma Gandhi

 

Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

            -- Source Unknown

 

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.   

            -- Chinese Proverb
 

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

            -- E.E. Cummings

 

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

            -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. And never doubt that a small group of students can make to world a more just and humane place. Indeed, they already have.

            -- Margaret Mead
 

 

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