Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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