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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. --Coretta Scott King (in Why this Retired Professor Gives Driving Lessons for Free)

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. --W.P. Kinsella (in Daily Phrases from the World's Happiest Nation)

One of the things that really amazed me is how the love of this craft, a way of expressing something of oneself, eclipsed the fear. --Dennis Ludlow (in 'Doctor, Doctor, I Declare': Dennis Ludlow in Conversation)

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. --Mitch Albom (in Significance of the Seemingly Ordinary)

Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. --Amy Leigh Mercree (in Dishes in the Sink)

Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. --Jodi Picoult (in Why Boston's Wealthy Back Bay Said Yes, In Our Backyard)

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. --John Green (in 4 Habits of Effective Communicators)

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. --Orrin Woodward (in From Accessing Your Ignorance to Accessing Your Love)

Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies. --Adrienne Maree Brown (in Connecticut Plans to Cancel Medical Debt for Many Residents)

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. --Henry David Thoreau (in Lost? Here's 4 Steps to Finding Your Path)

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash. --Bill Nye (in These Nepali Women Give Mt. Everest Garbage New Life)

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. --Gandhi (in With a Soft Breath: How My Daughter Rides Horses)

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make. --Jane Goodall (in Something Old Is Something New)

The only riches that last are the ones that are given away. --David Khalil (in He Left Company Ownership to its 700 Employees)

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart ... live the questions now. --Rainer Maria Rilke (in Why Uncertainty Can Lead to Childlike Wonder)

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. --Shannon L. Adler (in Small Town Hotel Becomes Safe Haven in an Expensive World)

Prevention is better than cure. --Desiderius Erasmus (in Zero Problem Philanthropy)

We are in relationship -- everything around us is a mirror of ourselves, our internal selves. --Kalyanee Mam (in Seeds of Reciprocity)

When you start to step out of the human-flavored reality and explore these other spectrums, you realize that everything is kind of existing in relationship to everything else in its own sensory kind of dialogue. --Barney Steel (in Mycelial Landscapes)

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. --Maya Angelou (in Why 1,200 Widows Will Be Surprised With Flowers Today)

It's not what you do, but who you become by what you do. --Anonymous (in The New Old Age)

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. --Jimmy Dean (in The Decision to Change)

Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. --Mandy Hale (in Tsultrim Allione: Turning Towards What’s Difficult)

The love we give away is the only love we keep. --Elbert Hubbard (in Strangers 'Scarf-Bomb' City to Give Warmth in Winter)

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. --Henry David Thoreau (in Meet The Fanciful Wooden Trolls of Pacific Northwest Forests)

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. --Henry Winkler (in An Offering of Remembrance)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in Glacial Longings)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill (in Widower Transforms Grief by Offering Home Repairs for Free)

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. --John Travolta (in Today You, Tomorrow, Me)

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?" --Shannon L. Alder (in 3 Reasons Why You Need Anger)

The brain is neither immutable nor static but continuously remodeled by the lives we lead. --Richard J. Davidson (in How Mindfulness Changes the Emotional Life of our Brains)

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. --Helen Keller (in Love, The Sewer District)

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. --Nelson Mandela (in How Emotional Intelligence Levels Up Leadership)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. --Henry Van Dyke (in Power of Slow Change)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in The Bizarre Genius of a Brainless Blob)

The more you practice tolerating discomfort, the more confidence you'll gain in your ability to accept new challenges. --Amy Morin (in How to Prepare Your Nervous System for New Goals)

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. --Shunryu Suziki (in The Great-Grandmother Who Goes To Primary School)

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it. --Daniel Goleman (in How Two Moms Founded An Adaptive Clothing Company)

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. --Nelson Mandela (in The Geometry Of Other People)

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. --Florence Nightingale (in Extraordinary Ordinary People)

Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. --Myles Munroe (in Why Meeting Another's Gaze Is So Powerful)

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation. --Vernon Howard (in 3 Steps to a Purposeful Year)

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you. --Gretchen Rubin (in These Uplifting Photos of 2023 Are Guaranteed to Make Your Eyes )

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. --Albert Einstein (in It Turns Out We Were Born To Groove)

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. --Stephen Hawking (in Perseverance: Nasa's Mars Rover Celebrates 1,000 Days Of Science)

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. --Daryn Kagan (in 66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023)

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. --Omar Khayyam (in Niksen: The Dutch Art of Purposefully Doing Nothing)

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. --Gandhi (in Animal Shelter Celebrates After All Pets Adopted For First Time )

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. --Albert Einstein (in How Two Enemy Soldiers Saved Each Other, Over 20 Years Apart)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust (in Songs of Trees)


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