"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
- Dr. M. L. King, Jr.
"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today."
- William Glasser
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."
- Rose Kennedy
"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."
– Leo Rosten
"Never be bullied into silence."
- Harvey Fierstein
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
- Gail Sheehy
"I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."
"I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."
- Lily Tomlin
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
- Margaret Cho
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