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#1

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational

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#2

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

tags: beauty, charity, inspirational, kindness, misattributed-audrey-hepburn

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#3

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

tags: happiness, inspirational, love, optimism, strength

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#4

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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#5

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

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#6

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls

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#7

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#9

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

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#10

“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

tags: animals, communication, frances-hodgson-burnett, language, little-princess, soul, words

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#11

“It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: communication, disagreement, expression, expressions, humanity, humble, humility, ideas, judgement, judgmental, open-mind, open-mindedness, opinion, opinions, recognition, respect, talent, thought, thoughts, writing

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#12

“When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.”
― Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

tags: children, communication, education, parenting

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#13

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability

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#14

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

tags: communication

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#15

“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arrogance, body-language, business, cocky, communication, egotism, hate, inferiority, insult, nonexistent, offensive, pride, selfish, silence-communication, superiority

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#16

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

tags: communication

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#17

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”
― Peggy O'Mara

tags: child-rearing, children, communication, inner-voice

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#18

“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: bird, communication, thought

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#19

“We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.”
― Rania Al-Abdullah

tags: communication

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#20

“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.”
― Phyllis Theroux

tags: communication, letters

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#21

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

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#22

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, healing, inspirational, justice, sacrifice

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#23

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

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#24

“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals

tags: freedom, human-rights, limitations, personal-autonomy, personal-responsibility

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#25

“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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#26

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
― James Baldwin

tags: bigotry, disagreement, human-rights, human-rights-violations, incorrect-attribution, love, quote-by-robert-jones

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#27

“Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.”
― Yuri Kochiyama

tags: activist, human-rights, life

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#28

“Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university”
― Khalil Osiris

tags: human-rights, re-entry

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#29

“Speaking up for rights and equality doesn't require any specific sexuality or gender, all it requires is that you are human.”
― Abhijit Naskar

tags: brainy-quotes, discrimination, equality, gender-equality, homophobia, human-rights, humanitarian, pearls-of-wisdom

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#30

“I cannot stop the oppressions of the past, but I’ll keep working till death, to prevent the oppressions of the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

tags: activist, discrimination, human-rights, human-rights-violation, humanitarian, justice, oppression, racism, speak-up, tyranny

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