"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" — Gandhi (attributed)

“I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality

and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” — Lily Tomlin

"You can have a great many ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward." — Miguel Ruiz

“Just as a mother would protect her only child at the risk of her own life, even so, let one cultivate a boundless love toward all beings.” — Buddha (Sutta Nipata 1.8)

"We are not passive spectators, but active contestants in the drama of our existence. We need to take responsibility for the kind of life we create for ourselves and others." — Nathaniel Brandon

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." — Annie Dillard

"In the end, I think my greatest concerns will be, how much love did I have in my life? How did I share my love? Who loved me? Whom did I treasure? Whose lives did I impact? Did my life make a difference to someone else? — Richard Carlson

"Most people die with their music still in them." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“What is not given, is lost.” — Chinese Proverb

“Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.” — The Prophet Muhammed

"One of life's great illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hearts that each day is the best, the most crucial day of the year." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have no right to more than I need when my brother has less than he needs." — Gandhi

What we find when we enter these mortal plains is existence. But existence is the raw material out of which all life must be created. A productive and happy life is not something that you find, it is something you make." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“...if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.” — Thomas Merton

"The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement." — Charles Schwab

"Every time you act, you change the world. Change the world enough times and you yourself change." — Tim Cimino

“Do to others as you would have them do to you.” — Jesus (Luke 6:31)

“To allow oneself to be carried away by the multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to

succumb to violence.” — Thomas Merton

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn . . . and change.” — Carl Rogers

"Past a certain point, loving is a learning experience, and learning is a loving experience." — Tim Cimino

“Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves. The realizations of such masters cannot be expressed well in words or by theories. The most perfect actions echo the patterns found in nature.” — Morihei Ueshiba

“Live simply so that others may simply live.” — Elizabeth Ann Seton

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. — George Bernard Shaw

"Teach someone to learn and their whole lives are changed; teach them to teach others how to learn and the world is transformed." — Tim Cimino

“The notion that money is something I exchange my life energy for gave me the power to say no to the unsatisfying, [and] the go-ahead to explore what is

fulfilling.” — Lucy Woods

"In the light of a greater truth, a smaller truth casts a shadow." — Tim Cimino [Good uses of time might not be so good, compared to uses of time that have long-term positive impacts, or that help many more people, or that improve your own life in much deeper ways.]