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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,319 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,225 people liked it

"To See a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
— William Blake

tags: inspirational
156 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,342 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,438 people liked it

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
2,375 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
2,127 people liked it

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, time
1,558 people liked it

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
— Laozi

tags: travel
131 people liked it

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: calm, inspirational, nature, order, patience, time
65 people liked it

"Because of a great love, one is courageous."
— Laozi

tags: love
24 people liked it

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, inspirational, live, love, music
777 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,474 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,146 people liked it

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, man, need
88 people liked it

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: appreciation, life, speed, time
76 people liked it

"Action expresses priorities."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, life, priorities
55 people liked it

"Science without conscience is the soul's perdition."
— François Rabelais (Pantagruel)

tags: conscience, science
6 people liked it

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
— Jane Austen

tags: nature
32 people liked it

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself."
— Edward Abbey (Desert Solitaire)

31 people liked it

"Eating is an agricultural act."
— Wendell Berry (What Are People for Essays By Wendell B)

tags: agriculture, food, politics
6 people liked it

"Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you."
— Wendell Berry

4 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational
39 people liked it

"The sun shines not on us but in us."
— John Muir

12 people liked it

"Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom."
— Neil Simon (Laughter on the 23rd Floor)

1 person liked it

"The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it."
— Twyla Tharp

3 people liked it

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
— Marcel Proust

69 people liked it

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic."
— Dave Barry

tags: ark, noah, titanic
73 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
12,038 people liked it

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."
— Masanobu Fukuoka (One-Straw Revolution)

tags: agriculture, farming, zen
1 person liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,169 people liked it

"The earth has music for those who listen."
— William Shakespeare

tags: nature
190 people liked it

"But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters."
— Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)

tags: rabp
12 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,500 people liked it

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: writing
497 people liked it

"There is no remedy for love, but to love more."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: love, remedy
103 people liked it

"Simplify, simplify."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: life
8 people liked it

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: beauty, life, love
84 people liked it

"A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself "
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational
33 people liked it

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

44 people liked it

"Learn to like what doesn't cost much.
Learn to like reading, conversation, music.
Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.
Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.
Learn to like people, even though some of them may be different...different from you.
Learn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction doing your job as well as it can be done.
Learn to like the song of birds, the companionship of dogs.
Learn to like gardening, puttering around the house, and fixing things.
Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.
Learn to keep your wants simple and refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others."
— Lowell Bennion

1 person liked it

"How can I help?"
— Lowell Bennion

1 person liked it

"If we thought of life as a gift, we might not demand nearly as much from it. And if we lived more graciously, giving of ourselves more freely to the well-being of others, many of our personal concerns would disappear, and life would become easier for all."
— Lowell Bennion

1 person liked it

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
— John Quincy Adams

tags: leadership
47 people liked it

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,619 people liked it

"Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence."
— George Eliot

tags: failure, joy, victory
17 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,271 people liked it

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, life
390 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: failure, inspirational, success
245 people liked it

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

230 people liked it

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