Quote-apalooza! Part 2

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• All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. -- Kahlil Gibran
  
  
• The status quo disguises decline. -- Patrick O'Neill
  
  
• When mistrust comes in, love goes out. -- Irish proverb
  
  
• Do anything that makes the world a better place. -- Melvin Weiner
  
  
• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin
  
  
• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. -- Will Rogers
  
  
• If you choose vanilla, why do you complain that it's not chocolate? -- Anonymous
  
  
• May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion. -- Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• The most important thing is remembering the most important thing. -- Zen proverb
  
  
• My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. -- Erma Bombeck
  
  
• The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. -- Jim Rohn
  
  
• When we let go of blame, we open to the compassion that can genuinely transform ourselves and our world. -- Tara Brach
  
  
• Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. -- Marion Anderson
  
  
• I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand. -- Louis Armstrong
  
  
• In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain't they got no shame? -- Nikki Giovanni
  
  
• Guilt has a lot of arrogance in it. -- Charlotte Joko Beck
  
  
• I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. -- James Baldwin
  
  
• Two monologues do not make a dialogue. -- Jeff Daly
  
  
• Reject hatred without hating. -- Mary Baker Eddy
  
  
• We’ve all experienced brutality thinly disguised as "humor," usually with the unfunny disclaimer, "What’s the matter? Can't take a joke?" -- Steve Bhaerman
  
  
• You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. -- John Lennon
  
  
• What's the use of running when we are on the wrong road? -- German proverb
  
  
• If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. -- Ann Landers
  
  
• It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. -- Roy Disney
  
  
• A warrior never worries about his fear. -- Carlos Castaneda
  
  
• The giving of love is an education in itself. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. -- Eckhart Tolle
  
  
• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. -- Eric Hoffer
  
  
• How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  
  
• Non-violence cannot be preached. It has to be practiced. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. -- Henri Nouwen
  
  
• It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. -- M. Grundler
  
  
• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. -- Helen Keller
  
  
• Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -- Walter Anderson
  
  
• So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again. -- Judith Jamison
  
  
• All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen Hawking
  
  
• I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  
  
• We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. -- Margaret Chase
  
  
• Failure was sometimes more interesting than success because it raised more questions. -- Barry Stevens
  
  
• There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. -- Howard Zinn
  
  
• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. -- Will Rogers
  
  
• Bad is never good until worse happens. -- Danish proverb
  
  
• Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. -- Bill Moyers
  
  
• Once you have engaged in violence the consequences are unpredictable. -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  
  
• If I don’t choose consciously, I will choose unconsciously. -- Mary Morrissey
  
  
• Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy. -- Thomas Merton
  
  
• People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. -- Maya Angelou
  
  
• What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly? -- Rumi
  
  
• The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. -- Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. -- Anais Nin
  
  
• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. -- Ellen Burstyn
  
  
• Giving something of yourself is giving something to yourself. -- Ajahn Santacitta
  
  
• Let deeds, not words be your adorning. -- Baha'i proverb
  
  
• It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. -- Jiddu Krishamurti
  
  
• People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. - Sandy Koufax
  
  
• Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. -- Ramana Maharshi
  
  
• Violence happens when words fail. -- Eli Wiesel
  
  
• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. -- Joseph Joubert
  
  
• The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action. -- Cindy Gallop
  
  
• How peaceful the world could be, if people were at peace with themselves. -- Jami Lula
  
  
• The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. -- Mother Teresa
  
  
• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. -- Bono
  
  
• Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think you were put here for something less? -- Chief Arvol Looking Horse
  
  
• Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. -- W.J. Cameron
  
  
• Write garbage. Write, write, write. Then learn to edit brilliantly. -- CJ Cherryh

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