quotes for life..

Niels Bohr
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Abigail Adams
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

Robert Coles
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Rabindranath Tagore
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Thomas Erskine
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Matthew Henry
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Thomas Aquinas
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Rabindranath Tagore
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Rabindranath Tagore
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Donald Williams
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101

John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Hannah Arendt
The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which "the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one's skin or color or race" are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs. [Dissent, Winter 1959]

John Warwick Montgomery
The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.

Henrik Ibsen
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

M. Scott Peck
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Carl Jung
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

Saul Alinsky
Last guys don't finish nice.

Anatole France
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago (Philippines)
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

Paulo Freire
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Aung San Suu Kyi
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.