-Dare to think for yourself. -Voltaire
-You are your choices. -Seneca
-Teachers open the door, but you must walk through it yourself. -Chinese Proverb
-No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. -Buddha
-To find yourself, think for yourself. -Socrates
-Knowing thyself is the beginning of all wisdom. -Aristotle
-Any fool can know. The point it to understand. -Albert Einstein
-The more you read, the more you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. -Dr. Seuss
-The more you know, the more you know you don't know. -David Bryne
-The more you know, the less you need. -Aboriginal proverb
-Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. -Jean Jacques Rosseau
-No man is free who is not master of himself. -Epictetus
-The most excellent struggle is that for the conquest of self. -Muhammed
-It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or demons, heaven or hell. -Buddha
-And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. -John 8:32
-The search for truth is on one way hard and in the other way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. -Aristotle
-It takes two to speak truth; one to speak and the other to hear. -Henry David Thoreau
-The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. -Friedrich Nietzsche
-Truth stands, even if there is no public support. It is self-sustained. -Ghandi
-Love truth, but pardon error. -Voltaire
-From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. -Sigmund Freud
-Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. -Ghandi
-Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and by our very acknowledgement, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher and are worthy to be on a level with it. -Johanne Wolfgang Von Goethe
-Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -Abraham Lincoln
-When people fear the government, there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. -Thomas Jefferson
-Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. -Henry David Thoreau
-Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around them. -Plato
-One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -Martin Luther King Jr
-None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. -Aristotle
-For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. -Nelson Mandela
-He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates
-What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. We are what we think. -Buddha
-A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. -Ghandi
-If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -Mother Teresa
-It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace. -Shenandoah proverb
-There is no path to peace; peace is the path. -Ghandi
-Know the Power that is Peace. -Black Elk
-Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. -Buddha
-When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix
-We must live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. -Martin Luther King Jr.
-If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can 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 breath the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. -John F. Kennedy
-All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. -Albert Einstein
-The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other aspects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. -Ghandi
-I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. -Kahlil Gibran
-Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do. They all contain Truths. -Muhammed
-Regard Heaven as your Father, Earth as your Mother, and all that lives as your Brother and Sister. -Native Wisdom
-Therefore all things whatsoever you desire that men should do to you, do you evenso unto them. -Matthew 7:12
-Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. -Luke 6:31
-Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. -Socrates
-Do not say , that if people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them. -Muhammed
-Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. -Marcus Aurelius
-Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Ghandi
-Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life merely to amuse ourselves. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. Happiness depends on ourselves. Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -Aristotle
-Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. -Oliver Wendall Holmes
-Where there is love, there is life. -Ghandi
-Love is the pursuit of the whole. -Plato
-I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. -Mother Teresa
-There is no remedy for love than to love more. -Henry David Thoreau
-Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. -Lao Tzu
-Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend. There is something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. -Martin Luther King Jr.
-Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. -Buddha
-If I speak in tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. Love never fails... -I Corinthians 13
-Love conquers all. -Virgil
-It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love; it matters only that you love. -John Lennon
-Wicked men obey from fear; good men from love. -Aristotle
-Love doesn't find a way, love is the way. Live and let live, love and let love. -Whitedog
-God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. -German proverb
-Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
-The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. -Confucious
-It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. -Lin Yutang
-For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in the mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. -James 1:23-24
-Words may show a man's wit, but actions show his meaning. -Benjamin Franklin
-Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. -Plato
-Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. -Native American Proverb
-Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. -Albert Einstein
-Judge not, that you may not be judged. For the judgement you pronounce will be judged, and with the measure you use it, will be measured to you. Matthew 7:1-2
-All actions are judged by the motives prompting them. -Muhammed
-I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. -Leonardo da Vinci
-However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them? -Buddha
-The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -Plato
-Let him who would move the world first move himself. -Socrates
-You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself. -Miguel Ruiz
-Things do not change; we change. -Henry David Thoreau
-It is our lives and not our words that our religion must read. -Thomas Jefferson
-Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future. -John F. Kennedy
-The world as we have created it, is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. -Albert Einstein
-If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. -Laozi
-Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is yet to come. We only have today. Let us begin. -Mother Teresa
-You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Ghandi
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