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  • #1
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #5
    Henry Miller
    “Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
    Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #9
    Stephanie Klein
    “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
    Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

  • #10
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    Malcolm X

  • #11
    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    Voltaire

  • #12
    “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34”
    Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

  • #13
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

  • #14
    Nisargadatta Maharaj
    “It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
    Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  • #15
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #16
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy.

    When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song.

    When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.

    When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king.

    When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #17
    B.H. Roberts
    “A temple, first of all, is a place of
    prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
    seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
    sanctuary--a temple.”
    B.H. Roberts

  • #18
    Gautama Buddha
    “Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
    Siddhārtha Gautama

  • #19
    Ezra Taft Benson
    “When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.”
    Ezra Taft Benson

  • #20
    “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
    Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

  • #21
    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    Aristotle

  • #22
    Kālidāsa
    “Yesterday is but a dream,
    Tomorrow is only a vision.
    But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
    Kālidāsa, The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 1: Poems
    tags: hope

  • #23
    Shah Rukh Khan
    “Walk on with hope in your heart,
    and you'll never walk alone”
    Shah Rukh Khan
    tags: hope

  • #24
    Amy Tan
    “Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”
    Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

  • #25
    Barack Obama
    “I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”
    Barack Obama

  • #26
    John Milton
    “Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”
    John Milton
    tags: hope



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