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  • #1
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #2
    George Bernard Shaw
    “My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

    [From the will of GBS]”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #3
    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

  • #4
    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #5
    Abraham Lincoln
    “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #6
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #7
    William Penn
    “They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

    (Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
    William Penn

  • #8
    “A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”
    Marian Wright Edelman

  • #9
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #10
    Walker Percy
    “The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
    Walker Percy

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #13
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    E. E. Cummings

  • #14
    Kenneth Patchen
    “There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ”
    Kenneth Patchen

  • #15
    Horace Mann
    “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
    Horace Mann

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus



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