INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
---Margaret Mead

“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”
---Margaret Mead

“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
---Margaret Mead

“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.”
---Margaret Mead

" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do
are entirely different things.”
---Margaret Mead“

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
---Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for
the welfare of his fellow men.”
---Mahatma Gandhi

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
---Mahatma Gandhi

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
---Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
---Henry David Thoreau

Prejudice is opinion without judgment.”
---Voltaire

“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.”
---George Aiken

“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one
believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t
appreciate kindness and compassion.”
---The Dali Lama

“Regardless of race, creed, ideology, political bloc (East and
West), or economic region (North and South), the most important and basic aspect of all people is their humanity-the fact that each person, old, young, rich, poor, educated, uneducated, male or female, is a human. This shared humanness and thus the shared aspiration of gaining happiness and avoiding suffering as well as the basic right to bring these about are of prime importance.”
---The Dali Lama

" We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of
us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart
and to make something positive and useful of our lives.
---The Dali Lama

“Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would
be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals,
and the environment. The most important thing is to be a good human being.”
---The Dali Lama

“It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are
two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion.
The other is more social, more public. When something needs
to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.”
---The Dali Lama

“Whoever excludes others will find himself excluded in turn.
Those who affirm that their God is the only God are doing something dangerous and pernicious, because they are on
the way to imposing their beliefs on others, by any means
possible.”
---The Dali Lama

“The essence of all spiritual life is your emotion, your attitude
toward others. Once you have pure and sincere motivation, all
the rest follows. You can develop this right attitude toward others
on the basis of kindness, love, and respect, and on the clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.”
---The Dali Lama

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do
for your country."
---JFK