Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. (Thich Nhat Hanh) It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty. (Martin Luther King) Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. (Leo Buscaglia) For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it. (Eleanor Roosevelt) Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. (Maria Montessori) If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for. (Chinese Proverb) For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it. (Eleanor Roosevelt) I wonder what the engineers, technicians, and workers who make weapons all day long for killing their neighbor can possibly be thinking of. They're not working for a living; they're working for dying. (Adolfo Perez Esquivel) Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. (Maria Montessori) If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for. (Chinese Proverb) When you hear a man say, "I hate"; adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That man may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen over the radio, but his mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.  (Harry Emerson Fosdick) Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. (Edelstein's Advice) Oh, great Father, never let me judge another man until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks. (A Prayer for Understanding) Work hard to create in your children a good self-image. It's the most important thing you can do to insure their success. (Indian Prayer) Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person. (Haydn Sargent) Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. (Benjamin Disraeli) Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you. (Blaise Pascal)Oh, great Father, never let me judge another man until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks. (A Prayer for Understanding) A Rattlesnake, If Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. (E. Stanley Jones) It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. (Alfred Adler) No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo) The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. (Frank Kent) We have seen the enemy and he is us. (Walt Kelly) Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight. (Mikhail Naim) Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth -- in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words -- in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. This requires an integrated character, a oneness, primarily with self but also with life. (Stephen R. Covey) In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. (Immanuel Kant) It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. (Mahatma Gandhi) Nobody was born nonviolent, No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion. (Lanza Del Vasto) Try living one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day, until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital, and alive. (Norman Vincent Peale) Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. (John F. Kennedy) We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. (John F. Kennedy) The time is always right to do what is right. (Martin Luther King) To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. (Alan Paton) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King) [About Us] [General Info] [Program Listings] [Sabbatical Info] [Bring Your Group] [Email Newsletter] [Staff] [Quotes] [Links] [Contact] [Home] Web Design by Networld-Project © 1999 - 2012