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Words of Wisdom
Words of Wisdom
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat."I don't much care where --" said Alice."Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat."-- so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation."Oh, you’re sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland----------
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt-----------
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can,in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can,as long as ever you can.” - John Wesley----------
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.It was never between you and them anyway." - Mother Teresa----------
“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.” - Pope Francis----------
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Abraham Lincoln----------
"Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire.""I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
- Voltaire----------
“The Person Who Says It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt The Person Who Is Doing It.”
- Chinese Proverb----------
"One does not have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient."
- Charles M. Blow