Quotes

That is probably our job here. To keep going and to do it with as much beauty and elegance as our hearts can bear.
Walt Longmire

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein

In all my walking, sleeping, eating, and moving through this world may I not cause harm to any living being.
Milarepa

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Howard Zinn

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Mahatma Gandhi

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer, in Kulturphilosophie (1923)

We owe it to them to *never* lose hope and to treat everyone we meet as someone who can be educated to embrace nonviolence.
Gary L. Francione

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
Plutarch (c.AD 46-120)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Your beliefs become your thoughts.
Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your actions.
Your actions become your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

Face your fears and live your dreams.
Unknown

In that painful moment when we don’t live up to our own standards, do we condemn ourselves or truly appreciate the paradox of being human? Can we forgive ourselves and stay in touch with our good and tender heart?
Pema Chödrön

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

where there is love there is courage
where there is courage there is peace
where there is peace there is god
and when you have god, you have everything
Unknown

Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
Helen Keller

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

Courage is not the absence of fear - it is going on in spite of it.
Mark Twain

I think courage must be learned. And the same yardstick can't be used to compare individuals. In fact, it can only really be judged in the context of itself. Individual people (and animals) learn about fear differently, have unique responses when they face fear, can have drastically different experiences with the littlest act of courage. Think about how standing up for oneself as a little kid and getting either "you're a brave little ____" or getting smashed down either mentally or physically can have diametrically opposed outcomes.