Quotes

You may not know that the world needs you, but it does. For no one else can smile your smile, say your piece, shine your light.... you are unique and you alone can fill your place. If you were not here to shine your light, what would happen to pilgrims passing by your empty place in the darkness, without your light to help them on their way? You may not know that the world needs you, but it does. - Inspired by an Old Poem

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time....But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. - Lila Watson, Aboriginal educator and activist

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. - John Buchan

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important. You have to do the right thing... You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. - Mahatma Gandhi

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. - Albert Schweitzer