Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas Edison

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. Charlie Chaplin

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. Jane Goodall

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage. Susan Sontag

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. Marcus Aurelius

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

“Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict” Pope Leo

“Our neighbors are not first our enemies … but other men and women with whom we can speak.” Pope Leo

"Make peace with someone before the holy night of Christmas. This will be a more precious gift than anything that can be bought, because peace is a gift found only in the heart". Pope Leo.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvetius

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”         John Steinbeck

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith

" Decide … whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying" Amelia Earhart

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

Our job is not to solve every problem in the world, but to do our part with grace, integrity and courage.         Cornel West

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo da Vinci

Calvin: I wonder why we think faster than we can speak. Hobbs: Probably so we can think twice

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. Daniel Defoe

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? Saint Basil

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. Bob Hope

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. James Baldwin

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. Joan Didion

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us.             Alberto Álvaro Ríos

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.  Galileo Galilei

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”     Bob Dylan

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham

You should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many because they are unlike you. Seneca

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. Patrick Henry

Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Albert Camus

We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Bill Watterson

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” Marie Curie

“The dog that trots about finds a bone.” Golda Meir

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” Marcus Aurelius,

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" Theodore Roosevelt

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. Rabindranath Tagore

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. George Carlin

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. Bob Dylan

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. James Baldwin

“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, does that mean mirrors are a waste of time?” Diane Keaton

How do you know? It’s a question we need to ask more often, both of ourselves and of others. The power lies in its frankness. It’s nonjudgmental—a straightforward expression of doubt and curiosity that doesn’t put people on the defensive. Adam M. Grant,

Abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something and not care how they get it. Carmen Maria Machado

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time. Martin Luther King Jr.