Mother Teresa

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

- Mother Teresa, humanitarian and missionary

Norman Vincent Peale

"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."

- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman and author

Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

- Mahatma Gandhi, activist, political and spiritual leader

Norman Vincent Peale

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman and author

Bahya Ibn Paquda

"If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief."

- Bahya Ibn Paquda, philosopher and rabbi

Buddha

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

- Buddha

Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

- Mahatma Gandhi, activist, political and spiritual leader

William Penn

"A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

- William Penn, entrepreneur, philosopher, religious leader

Noah Porter

"Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are."

- Noah Porter, philosopher, educator, clergyman

Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi, activist, political and spiritual leader

Ralph W. Sockman

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

- Ralph W. Sockman, pastor and author

Henry Ward Beecher

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

- Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator and social reformer

Mahatma Gandhi

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

- Mahatma Gandhi, activist, political and spiritual leader

Buddha

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

- Buddha

Jonathan Swift

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”

- Jonathan Swift, political pamhpleteer, poet, priest, essayist

Henry Ward Beecher

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

- Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator and social reformer

Martin Niemoller

"First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - I was not a Jew
Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out - I was not a Communist
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me."

- Martin Niemoller, theologian and pastor imprisoned by Nazis in 1937

Rumi

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it"

- Rumi, 13th century poet, theologian and mystic

John Henry Newman

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."

- John Henry Newman, Roman priest and cardinal

George MacDonald

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."

- George MacDonald, author, poet and Christian minister