"Whatever you do might seem insignificant.....

[Th1onein]

But, it is very important that you do it."

This is a quote from Mahatma Ghandi, my hero. And it is the greatest truth that I know of. I live my life by it.

Do any of you have favorite quotes that you use to steer your lives?

[democrank]

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson

But in the mud and scum of things
there always, always something sings.

[H2O Man]

2. "Gandhi on Non-Violence"

by Thomas Merton is a wonderful book of commentary on compassion and non-violence. I also have a book of Gandhi quotes that I have collected over many decades. I will list two of my favorites, one short and one long:

{1} What you think, you become.

{2} I count no sacrifice too great for seeing God face to face. The whole of my activity, whether it is called social, political, humanitarian, or ethical, is directed to that end. And as I know that God is found more often in the lowliest of his creatures than in the high and mighty, I am struggling to reach the status of these. I cannot do so without their service. Hence my passion for the service of the suppressed classes. And as I cannot render this service without entering politics, I find myself in them.

[seabeyond]

3. shit happens. it is what you do with the shit that matters.....

we are all perfectly imperfect....

there are two. i have a few more i live by. all by seabeyond, wink

[DesertRat]

4. Here's one of mine

"Not everyone can be famous, but everyone can be great; because greatness is determined by service." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Drum]

5. "Evil flourishes when good men do nothing."

Dunno who said it, but it inspires me to keep trying....

[EFerrari]

6. "First, do no harm.:"

[bonito]

7. A couple I can think of off hand

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, from my old text book,and
There's no excuse for being human.

[Sapphire Blue]

8. “Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.”

– Elie Wiesel, from his Nobel Acceptance Speech delivered in Oslo on December 10, 1986

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/ElieWiesel/speech.html

[JanusAscending]

9. I have two, one is secular and one is spiritual.

"To thine own self be true .........thou canst not then be false to any man" The spiritual one is, "love one another as I have loved you"

[Annces]

10. One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.

by Oliver Cromwell

I used that as a reference when I was young, but I think it actually got me into some trouble. Now I think you need to have an idea of where you are going.

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[IndyOp]

13. Salaam Alaikum, JoKyFo! And welcome to DU. :-) (n/t)

[TahitiNut]

12. "Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak." (Paul Wellstone)

That's about the best description of integrity I've heard in the last 50 years.

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)

[Morgana LaFey]

14. So live so that others consider you a blessing. nt