Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
by Martin Luther King
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sayings by Martin Luther King
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a Dream...
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The means we use must be as pure
as the ends we seek.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must build dikes of courage
to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A lie cannot live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seeing is not always believing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be a Christian without prayer
is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our Sayings
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise Hay
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
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"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
The path to love ... is our spiritual destiny.
- Deepak Chopra
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
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