“No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap for the long haul, and be prepared to die without having achieved our goals.” – Parker J. Palmer
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“Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams’s arms. The girl’s legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact […]
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“For every person who has ever lived there will come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.” – Pam Brov
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“I always believed that fear belonged to other people. Weaker people. It never touched me. And then it did. And when it touched you, you know…that it’s always been there all along. Waiting beneath the surface of everything you loved.”
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“Buy land because they’re nor making it anymore.” – Mark Twain
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“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” ― John F. Kennedy
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“It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” – Edmund Burke
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“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with it’s hope, even the ruins to which it clings. – Gustav Flaubert
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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson
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