Commitment

The Hope of Tomorrow - Unless we become the living embodiment of love and light, we shall have no justification in saying that God is love and light. Unless we use the freedom we have without abusing it, we shall have no justification in saying that man is master of his own soul, the creator of his own destiny, and the arbiter of his own fate. But if we can bind ourselves together reverently, in love and compassion, in mutual tolerance and understanding, under the cohesive powers of the universal law of good and the beneficence of a divine and universal presence, then shall we be able to use the liberty without license, to diffuse unity with uniformity, and to lead the world down the pathway of a new enlightenment.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, remember who raised them.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefor all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance

In the deph of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

I am selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

Determination declares whatever is required or demanded will be satisfied to the effect the desired result become a possessed property achieved through the force thereof.

Love is the Root of Divine Providence. All virtue is the fruit of Love. Through Love we receive every good and perfect gift. God is Love.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

“My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'” Mahatma Gandhi

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way." — Abraham Lincoln

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.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Women get married expecting to change their husbands, while men get married expecting their wives will never change.

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to life.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Until One is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come his or her way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed - that can make of this earth a garden.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.