I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
–T.S. Eliot

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations…is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.”
— Hannah Arendt

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!” –Anne Frank

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.”
–Unknown

Give children at least as many chances to show compassion as they have to be competitive.”
–Erica Layman

One kind word can warm three winter months.”
–Japanese Proverb

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
— G.B. Stern

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” –Johannes A. Gaertner

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer