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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

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

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

There is peace even in the storm.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall… think of it, always.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Ego says, Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace. Spirit says, Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined…