Who is Part of My Life

Snowflake tagged me for a meme yesterday, so here goes.

"There is so much to be done, there is so much that can be done. One person - a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, a Martin Luther King, Jr. - one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs." an excerpt from Elie Weisel's Nobel Prize acceptance speech Dec. 10, 1986

If we do not change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. - Chinese Proverb

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. - Carl Jung

Nothing happens...but first a dream. - Carl Sandburg

Holding anger is poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. - Mitch Albom, from The Five People You Meet in Heaven

They're certainly entitled to think that, and their entitled to full respect for their opinions. But before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. - Harper Lee from To Kill a Mockingbird

And lastly, not a quote but a poem - I love it too much to leave it out though...

Come my friends 'tis not too late to seek a newer world. For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunsets and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are we are, one equal temper of heroic heart. May weak by time and fate but strong by will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Tennyson