"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." - Marcus Aurelius
"[Humans] exist for the sake of one another. " - Marcus Aurelius
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul. " - Marcus Aurelius
"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. " - Marcus Aurelius
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. " - Marcus Aurelius
"Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carson
"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed." - Woodrow Wilson
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." - Khalil Gibran
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." - Khalil Gibran
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Khalil Gibran
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgement wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers all of your elements?" - Khalil Gibran
"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing. And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily ressurection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes." - Khalil Gibran