Quotations

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.  ~Mother Teresa


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  ~Anne Frank


Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.  ~William James


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.  ~Edward Everett Hale
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.  ~Laurence Leamer, King of the Night
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

 
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
― Dr. Seuss

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.--Aldous Huxley

 
"Earthworms are far more valuable than people."
- Paul Watson, speaking at the Animal Rights 2002 convention.

I myself do not believe in explaining anything. Shel Silverstein

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! Shel Silverstein

As much money and life as you could want!  The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.  ~J.K. Rowling, "Dobby's Reward," Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Arthur Weasley


A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation
Adlai E. Stevenson

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land
Aldo Leopold
 

 
To be or not to be, that is
the question
William Shakespeare 
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