Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed…
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.
—John Green

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
—Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect –
But tell me the truth.”
—Shel Silverstein

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
—George Bernard Shaw

“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the
mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.”
—Chuang Tzu

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and thewhole of nature and its beauty.” — Albert Einstein

“When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires
without limit to ever greater and better things…”
—René Descartes

“The most fundamental phenomenon in the universe is relationship.”
—Jonas Salk

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“In every sorrowing soul I pour’d delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”
—Homer

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
— Albert Schweitzer

“An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
—Hafiz

“When Simplicity is broken up, It is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, Are made into leaders. In this way, the
Great System is United.”
—Lao Tzu