Living in This World

The world belongs to those who hope and dream and believe that we can all make
this world a better place.  Be relevant in someone else's life by being a better parent,
son or daughter, sister or brother, friend.  Believe once more in the innate goodness
of people.  Be living testimonies to the joy of living and serving each other.  In truly
living life can we say that I have fully lived…..

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure,
but it has great difficulty in generating joy. -- Pope Paul VI

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they
always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." - Mohandas Gandhi


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Krishnamurti

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks

and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.
– Mother Teresa

Conscience is God's presence in man. -- Emanuel Swedenborg

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. -- Benjamin Jowett

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. - JFK

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be! Now, put

the foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, they send forth a ripple of

hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, this ripples builds a

current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking

the earth like brothers. - Martin Luther King

Speech is civilization itself. The word preserves contact. It is silence which isolates.

-- Thomas Mann

We are not paid for the hour but rather for the value we put to the hour.

Know the true value of time -- snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it.
-- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1733)

The work an unknown good person has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly

making the ground green. -- Thomas Carlyle

Blessed are those who have learned to admire but not to envy, to follow but not to imitate, to praise but not

to flatter, and to lead but not to manipulate. – Unknown

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something

for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of

your own. -- Albert Schweitzer

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. So autograph your work with quality.

- Robert Elliott

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and

intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

-- Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
-- Peter Drucker

Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-- St. Augustine

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
-- Tennessee Williams

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape
the planet to fit our infinite wants.

All that rings true, all that commands reverence, and all that makes for right, all that is pure, all

that is lovely, all that is gracious in the telling; virtue and merit, wherever truth and merit are

found – let this be the argument of your thought. -- St. Paul in the letter to the Philippians

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.  --  Matthew Henry

Freedom is not the freedom to do what we want, but to do as we ought.  - Lord Acton

If you meet the world with a smile, the world will always smile back. -- Stephen Douglas

Every sunrise is a message from God, and every sunset, God's signature.  -- William Ward

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love won. There
have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end
they always fall. Think of it…always. – Mahatma Gandhi

Darkness cannot drive our darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness
multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction… The chain reaction of evil,
– hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

--Ronald Reagan

LEADERSHIP
You don't lead by pointing a finger and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to

that place and making a case. - Ken Kesey (1935-2001), Writer

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the

way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.

- Charles Schwab (1862-1939), Steel magnate