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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Militant Pacifism
Relationships
Summer grasses— all that remains of warriors’ dreams.
Matsuo Basho
Oku no Hosomichi
Life
Departing spring— birds cry, and in the eyes of fish are tears.
Matsuo Basho
Oku no Hosomichi
Relationships
The months and days are travelers through the ages, and the years that come and go are also wayfarers.
Matsuo Basho
Oku no Hosomichi
Life
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Kindness
But still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Work
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Jane Addams
Newer Ideals of Peace
hope
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
Jane Addams
Twenty Years at Hull-House
Life
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
How Would You Uplift the Masses?
Relationships
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Kindness
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
Democracy and Social Ethics
Work
Let the elderly, women, and children lie by the roadside without fear of harm.
Kamehameha I
Kānāwai Māmalahoe (1797)
Kindness
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Little Prince
hope
The greatest gift a doctor can give is not just skill, but presence—to be there when needed, without hesitation.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Little Prince
love
Dear Commander Nie, I feel really unwell today. Perhaps I have to bid farewell to you all... Thousands of heartfelt thanks to you and to all our dear comrades.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Little Prince
Life
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
love
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
hope
Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
Norman Bethune
The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art
Kindness
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade… Let us say to the people not ‘How much have you got?’ but ‘How best can we serve you?’
Norman Bethune
Statements by Norman Besheun on healthcare
Work
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Life
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