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“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“Wherever there is a human being, there exists the opportunity for an act of kindness.”
― Seneca, Dialogues and Essays

“Kindness is unconquerable, so long as it is without flattery or hypocrisy. For what can the most insolent man do to you, if you contrive to be kind to him, and if you have the chance gently advise and calmly show him what is right...and point this out tactfully and from a universal perspective. But you must not do this with sarcasm or reproach, but lovingly and without anger in your soul.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
― Descartes

“Action is eloquence.”
― William Shakespeare

“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
― Desmond Tutu

“Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues, et de voler du pain.”
― Anatole France, Le Lys rouge suivi de Le Jardin d'Épicure

“You can disagree without being disagreeable.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Coal-black is better than another hue,
In that it scorns to bear another hue;
For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.”
― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse

“We speak of time and mind, which do not easily yield to categories. We separate past and future and find that time is an amalgam of both. We separate good and evil and find that mind is an amalgam of both. To understand, we must grasp the whole.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
― Benedictus de Spinoza

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
― George Lucas, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“To do good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.”
― John William Polidori, The Vampyre

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“The deed is everything, the glory nothing.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labor fervently, but Satan never sleeps. The only dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.”
― Saint Moses the Black

“It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ”
― Martin Heidegger

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”
― Sigmund Freud