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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength. (Francis de Sales)",
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. (Nikki Giovanni)",
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails. (Henry David Thoreau)",
"Wars are poor chisels, for carving out peaceful tomorrows. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)",
"There is a story of hope, and we are characters in the story. (Robert R. Walsh)",
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. (Janis Joplin)",
"There is always time for the important things. (Alan Lakein)",
"May your life preach more loudly than your lips. (William Ellery Channing)",
"There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. (Neils Bohr)",
"The master needs the slave far more than the slave needs the master. (Angela Davis)",
"There is something contagious about demanding freedom. (Robin Morgan)",
"All serious daring starts from within. (Eudora Welty)",
"When those who fish can't go to sea, they mend nets. (Book of Runes (Adapted))",
"To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born. (William Redfield)",
"Little strokes fell great oaks. (Benjamin Franklin)",
"Whoever begins by loving Chrsitianity more than truth will end by loving himself more than Christianity. (W. T. Coleridge)",
"Almost always, the move toward a distinction, the positive work of mind on language, is a gain. The negative change, away from distinct ideas, is generally the result of heedlessness or ignorance, and hence a loss. (Wilson Follett)",
"The 16th century writer Michel de Montaigne lived in a world of religious war, just as we do. And he understood, as we must, that complete religious certainty is, in fact, the real blasphemy. (Andrew Sullivan)",
"Torture the data for long enough, and it will confess. (Statistician's maxim)",
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (Rebecca West)",
"He [Richard Feynman] believed in the 'primacy of doubt', not as a blemish upon our ability to know but as the essence of knowing. The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. (James Glieck)",
"A physicist once asked him [Richard Feynman] to explain in simple terms a standard item of the dogma, why spin-one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics. Feynman promised to prepare a freshman lecture on it. For once, he failed. 'I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level,' he said a few days later, and added, 'That means we really don't understand it.' (James Glieck)",
"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is ridiculous. (Goethe)",
"Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself,/(I am large, I contain multitudes). (Walt Whitman)",
"I suppose the itch to be smart and up to date is irresistible. I hate it. (George Lyttelton)",
"Did you hear of the parson who began his sermon: 'As God said -- and rightly-- ...' It grows on one. (Rupert Hart-Davies)",
"It is well to have all kinds of feelings, for this is all kinds of a world. (Robert Frost)",
"The problem with the Universe is NOT that it DOESN'T make sense, but rather that it ALMOST makes sense. (Lord Rutherford)",
"Life is an opportunity to grow a human soul. (Martin Luther)",
"Love is being present to the other without pretense or guile. (As quoted by Rev. Harold Babcock on February 14, 1999)",
"Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. (H.D. Thoreau)",
"What is hateful to you, do not do to others. The rest [of the Torah] is commentary. (Rabbi Hillel, when challenged to summarize the Torah in the time he could stand on one foot)",
" ... Man's most debilitating proclivity is not his pride. ... Rather it is his sloth. (Harvey Cox)",
"Meaning is not what you start out with, but what you end up with. (Peter Elbow)",
"Optimism is the highest form of moral courage. (Ernest Shackleton)",
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. (Charlotte Bronte)",
"...we poor dullards of habit and custom, we besotted and befuddled takers of life for granted, require the hell of a flaming thunderbolt to rouse us to the fact that every single second of conscious life is a miracle past reckoning, a marvel past all computation... (John Cowper Powys)",
"If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing on the sea of delusion. (Lin Chi)",
"[Whittier] thought the [Quaker] habit of plain-speaking had to be jealously guarded to keep it from becoming rude-speaking. (William Dean Howells)",
"While we live upon the level with the rest of mankind, we are reminded of our duty by the admonitions of friends and reproaches of enemies; but men who stand in the highest ranks of society, seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction, and obtund remorse. (Samuel Johnson)",
"The healthy, strong individual is the one who asks for help when he/she needs it. (Rona Barrett (Adapted))",
"Soft water wears away hard rock, if it persists. (Philip M. Larson, Jr.)",
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. (Thomas Jefferson)",
"My own mind is my own church. (Thomas Paine)",
"Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin)",
"One of the attributes of love is to bring harmony and order out of chaos. (Molly Haskell)",
"There is no reason to repeat bad history. (Eleanor Holmes Norton)",
"Democracy is a government by all the people for all the people. (Theodore Parker, 1854)",
"You need somebody to love you while you're looking for someone to love. (Shelagh Delaney)",
"Shallow brooks murmur most. (Sir Philip Sidney)",
"You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. (Margaret Mead)",
"Lying is done with words, and also with silence. (Adrienne Rich)",
"Memory is where the proof of life is stored. (Norman Cousins)",
"The world knew you before you knew the world. (Annie Dillard)",
"Sin is the wreckage of the love of which we are capable. (Henry Fairlie)",
"Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. (Margaret Fuller)",
"Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes. (Howard Thurman)",
"I feel we are all islands in a common sea. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)",
"War is fought over land that does not care, and issues that are forgotten. (Robert F. Kaufmann)",
"Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives. (Greta W. Crosby)",
"Life takes its color and quality not from the days, but the dawns. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)",
"The individual is not made for the state so much as the state for the individual. (William Ellery Channing)",
"Thoughtfulness makes no sound. (John E. Wood)",
"We are each of us responsible for the evil we might have prevented. (James Martineau)",
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott)",
"Being human explains everything, but excuses nothing. (Richard A. Perry)",
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? (Henry David Thoreau)",
"We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. (Simone Weil)",
"The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. (Julian of Norwich)",
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot)",
"We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves. (Cyril E. Brubaker)",
"I defy the tyranny of precedent. (Clara Barton)",
"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. (Margaret Sanger)",
"No lie can live forever. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)",
"The best prayers have often more groans than words. (John Bunyan)",
"Justice is love operating at a distance. (Joseph Sittler)",
"Blessed are those who dream, for some of their dreams will come true. (Harry Meserve)",
"Life must be lived undisguised. (Hannah Tillich)",
"The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. (Margaret Atwood)",
"They come to church to share God, not find God. (Alice Walker)",
"What we know is less than what we are. (William I. Thompson)",
"Any truth creates a scandal. (Marguerite Yourcenar)",
"As we are, so we associate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)",
"Love is a form of work or a form of courage. (M. Scott Peck)",
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference. (William James)",
"A greater inducement to folly is excess of power. (Barbara Tuchman)",
"Good is not a quality of life. It is life itself. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)",
"Our lives are known by the dilemmas we keep. (Anthony F. Perrino)",
"Most people have to talk so they won't hear. (May Sarton)",
"The key that unlocks the door to the inner world is imagination. (Morton T. Kelsey)",
"Letting pain be pain links us with others. (Matthew Fox)",
"Is silence the answer? It never was. (Elie Wiesel)",
"Be careful how you live your life for it is the only Gospel others will read. (Helder Camara)",
"To choose what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy; that is faith. (W. H. Auden)",
"Take time before time takes you. (Ralph Richmond.)",
"When I can no longer bear my loneliness I take it to my friends. (Mechtild of Magdeburg)",
"I must depend on myself as the only constant friend. (Margaret Fuller)",
"Laughter is the beginning of prayer. (Reinhold Niebuhr)",
"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Sarah Orne Jewett)",
"Perhaps we never appreciate the here and now until it is challenged. (Anne Morrow Lindberg)",
"Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. (Chet Raymo)",
"I have had to live from day to day, striving each day to do my best. (Jane Addams)",
"Every hour I live I become an intenser devotee to common sense! (Alice James)",
"No act of kindness. No matter how small is ever wasted. (Aesop)",
"The tragedy of life is not death. But what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins)",
"Let us listen to our own prayers. It is we who will make them real. (Deng Ming Dao)",
"Accomplishments have no color. (Leontyne Price)",
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot)",
"We did not weave the web of life: We are merely a strand in it. (Chief Seattle)",
"Each night a child is born is a holy night. (Sophia Lyon Fahs)",
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)",
"It is in our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. (Thomas Jefferson)",
"Prayer doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, it doesn't pollute. (Margaret Mead)",
"What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)",
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine)",
"Unto us our children are given as an encouragement of hope and strength. (Kenneth L. Patton)",
"If you want peace work for justice. (Pope Paul VI)",
"Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18)",
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller)",
"No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual. (Margaret Fuller)",
"Let us accept truth. even when it surprises us and alters our views. (George Sand)",
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)",
"No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. (Rabbi Soter)",
"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. (Han Suyin)",
"An achievement is simply a dream upon which we have labored. (John A. Taylor)",
"The race is not always to the swift. but to those who keep running. (Unknown)",
"What the earth is we are. (Walt Whitman)",
"More progress is made by attacking problems than by attacking people. (Harry Scholefield)",
"The worth of an individual is not related to the color of his or her skin. (Whitney Moore Young. Jr.)",
"War does not determine who is right; only who is left. (Anonymous)",
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. (Anonymous)",
"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. (May Lamberton Becker)",
"Give us a child's faith, that we may be cured of our cynicism. (Sara Moores Campbell)",
"Prayer does not change things; prayer changes people. and people change things. (Lon Ray Call)",
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea. (Emile-Auguste Chartier)",
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)",
"Never does hatred cease by hating in return. (Dhammapada)",
"Religion is something you do, not something you wait for. (Charles G. Finney)",
"An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind. (Mohandas K Gandhi)",
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt)",
"If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. (Mohammad Ali Jinnah)",
"To be blind is bad, but worse to have eyes and not to see. (Helen Keller)",
"We must learn to live together or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)",
"If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart. (Lao-Tse)",
"Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? (Luke 12:25)",
"Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. (Midrash)",
"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. (Louis Nizer)",
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another. (Albert Schweitzer)",
"To worship the wise is much easier than to profit by their wisdom. (Clinton Lee Scott)",
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged. (Rabindranath Tagore)",
"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. (Mother Teresa)",
"Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life? (Henry David Thoreau)",
"If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen. (Jacob Trapp)",
"Everything in nature is resurrection. (Voltaire)",
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)",
"The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms. (Clinton Lee Scott)",
"May your life preach more loudly than your lips. (William Ellery Channing)",
"To be religious is not to feel, but to be. (Reinhold Niebuhr)",
"If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it? (Chinese proverb)",
"Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers. (source unknown)",
"You need not think alike to love alike. (Francis David)",
"An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. (Jaeger's Facts)",
"There's more to life than increasing its speed. (Mahatma Gandhi)",
"I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes. (Sarah Teasdale)",
"The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice. (Terence)",
"To lead the people, walk behind them. (Lao Tzu)",
"To become a father is not hard. To be a father is. (Wilhelm Busch)",
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (Anon)",
"Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Jesse Jackson)",
"A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood. (Chinese proverb)",
"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. (Pearl S. Buck)",
"Never lose a holy curiosity. (Albert Einstein)",
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Albert Einstein)",
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizener)",
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Bishop Desmond Tutu)",
"The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in getting back up when you fall. (Nelson Mandella)",
"Religion is something that happens to you when you open your mind to truth, your conscience to justice, and your heart to love. (A. Powell Davies)",
"Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die. (Forrest Church)",
"Each of us has transforming moments...when we can sometimes receive life once more as a gift, not as a given. (John Buhrens)",
"Universalism struck hell from the theological menu; Unitarianism removed original sin. (Forrest Church)",
"Our religion is our love affair with life, and no man who is not in love with life has a religion worthy of the name. (Kenneth L. Patton)",
"We are not human beings on a religious journey, but rather we are religious beings on a human journey. (Unknown)",
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)",
"To sense our being connected in live ways with all the world and everyone in it, is the heart dimension of religion, whatever its name. (Peter Samson)",
"Some say that walking on water is a miracle. I say that walking on Earth in peace is the miracle. (Thich Nhat Hahn)",
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. (Buddha)",
"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. (Billie Burke)",
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. (Twyla Tharpe)",
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. (Doris Lessing)",
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. (Doris Lessing)",
"We can do no great things – only small things with great love. (Sister Theresa)",
"Tears may be dried up, but the heart – never. (Marguerite de Valois)",
"Light tomorrow with today! (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)",
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills)",
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Sally Kempton)",
"Reality is something you rise above. (Liza Minnelli)",
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. (Martha Washington)",
"Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. (Mignon McLaughlin)",
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. (Amelia Earhart)",
"The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen Keller)",
"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans. (Betty Talmadge)",
"It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. (Sara Bernhardt)",
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)",
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)",
"And the trouble is , if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong)",
"The man who needs no one's help is a lonely man indeed. (Dagobert D. Runes)",
"If you have no idea where you want to go, it makes little difference how fast you travel. (Anonymous)",
"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. (Eric Hoffer)",
"You must change with the times unless you are big enough to change the times. (Anonymous)",
"It's not the load which weighs us down; it's the way we carry it. (Anonymous)",
"The torrid sun melts the mountain snows. When anger comes, then wisdom goes. (Chinese proverb)",
"Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. (James Luther Adams)"),
"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. (The Dalai Lama)",
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Don't let a little dispute injure a greatfriendship. (The Dalai Lama)",
"When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Spend some time alone every day. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. (The Dalai Lama)",
"A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Be gentle with the earth. (The Dalai Lama)",
" Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. (The Dalai Lama)",
"Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. (The Dalai Lama)";
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