Quotes from Abraham Lincoln.

Quotes from Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Abraham Lincoln

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

― Abraham Lincoln

Today on Presidents’ Day seems like a good time to look at the things Abraham Lincoln had to say.

Compassion.

Compassion

Compassion.
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Compassion.

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

― Plato

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

― Albert Einstein

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

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Community.

Community.

Community.
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Community.

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“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

― Mother Teresa

“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.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

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Charity.

Charity

Charity.
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Charity            .

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“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

― Mother Theresa

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

― Maya Angelou

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

― John Bunyan

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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Boldness.

Boldness.

Boldness.
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Boldness.

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“Freedom lies in being bold.”

― Robert Frost

“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”

― Mark Twain

“Boldness be my friend.”

― William Shakespeare

 

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Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLJ Day 2015

Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wanted to share some thought-provoking quotes with you.

Today seemed like a good time to do this.

Awareness.

Awareness.

Awareness.
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Awareness.

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“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

― Eric Berne, Games People Play

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”

― Malcolm X

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Authenticity.

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Authenticity.

Authenticity.
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Authenticity.

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.”

― Plato

“No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work’s sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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Anticipation.

Anticipation.

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Anticipation

Anticipation.
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Anticipation

“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”

― Andy Warhol

“… We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.”

― Albert Camus

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

― Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

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Fun.

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Fun

Fun.
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Fun.

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

― Walt Disney Company

“If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.”

― Groucho Marx

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

― Dr. Seuss

“I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.”

― George Plimpton

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