Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity. - Doc Childre
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. - Ursula K. Le Guin
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. – Stephen Chbosky
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say. - George R.R. Martin
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. - John F. Kennedy
"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance." – Various authors, including Laurie Halse Anderson
Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control. - Stephen King
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. - Helen Keller
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. - Mahatma Ghandi
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Desmond Tutu
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion, or jealousy. - The Dalai Lama
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. - Albert Camus
Find your true path. It’s so easy to become someone we don’t want to be without even realizing it’s happening. We are created by the choices we make every day. - Bernie Siegel, MD.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. –Wilfred T. Grenfell
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. –Elizabeth Bibesco
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. –Joseph Fort Newton
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. –Thomas Carlyle
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other’s stories. - Eli Wiesel
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. - Buddha
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. - Marian Wright Edelman
Use wisely your power to choose. - Og Mandino
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. - Jim Rohn
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. - Pietro Aretino, Italian poet
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you... until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire... until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. - Napoleon Hill
“There is so much that can be fixed by honesty, if you’re brave enough to use it.” - Assistant to the Villain, by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. - William J. H. Boetcker
Be courageous enough to listen to the truth.
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
"The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." - Plato
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi
"You never fail until you stop trying." - Albert Einstein
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are." - Bo Bennett
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis
"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it." - Anonymous
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." - Christian D. Larson
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." - Albert Schweitzer
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" - Audrey Hepburn
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh (Alice in Wonderland)
"Opportunities don't happen, you create them." - Chris Grosser
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela
"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." - J.M. Barrie
"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." - Edwin Elliot
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” - Marilyn Monroe
“You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” - Viola Davis
“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” - Janis Joplin
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” - Harper Lee
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” - Duke Ellington
“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” - Trivia Cunningham
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” - E.E. Cummings
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." - Nora Ephron
“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” - Walter Anderson
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston S. Churchill
“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - Neil Gaiman
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” - Mary Anne Radmacher
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anaïs Nin
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
“Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.” - Ellen DeGeneres
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” - Helen Keller
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” - Oprah Winfrey
"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are." - Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” - Brené Brown
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.” - George Sand
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into place." - Lucille Ball
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” - Mother Teresa
“When you put love out in the world, it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” - Laverne Cox
“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the errors that counts.” - Nikki Giovanni
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar
Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” - Oprah Winfrey
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” - Colin R. Davis
“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” - Unknown
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” - Maya Angelou
"Success is not a destination, it's a journey." - Zig Ziglar
“Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”- Norman Vincent Peale
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll
"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes, you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens." - Mandy Hale
"Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine." - Mario Fernández
“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” - Bonnie Prudden
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"Sometimes, your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes, your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thich Nhat Hanh
“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” - Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde
“I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up, and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.” - Kerry Washington
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" - Audrey Hepburn
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” - Steve Jobs
"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is, and you'll see them all around you." - Jon Bon Jovi
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” - Taylor Swift
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney
“The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." -Bil Keane
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” - Hafez
"Never regret anything that made you smile." - Mark Twain
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." - Oscar Wilde
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." -Henri J.M. Nouwen
“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." -Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, & Learning
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” - George Lorimer
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” - Japanese Proverb
“The sky isn’t the limit - the sky has no limit.” - Sarah Barker
"It is better to travel well than to arrive." - Buddha
“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” - Maggie Kuhn
“Everything you can imagine is real.” - Pablo Picasso
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” - Geena Davis
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” - Kate Winslet
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” - Helen Keller
“Give light, and people will find the way.” - Ella Baker
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." - Maya Angelou
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment." - Carlos Santana
"Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life." - Omar Khayyam
“You are your best thing.” - Toni Morrison, Beloved
"Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind." - Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self