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20722 American Quotes

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Create Art Passion Soul
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

Wonderful Bright Inside Heal
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Common Spiritual Empowering Ignore
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Shine Soul Egoless Humility
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Wing Muddy Heal Broken
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

History Glow Kiss Grief
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Love Mercy Hope Silence
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

Taught Die Dignity Mouth
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

World Pain Stop Blood
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Time Heart Soul Melt
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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

Affirm Brother Word Quote
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…
Shine Burn Death New
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Peace Agony Soul Faith
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Temple Joy Pain School
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There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.

Envy Love Beautiful Rainbow
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Hate Soul Degrade Permit
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Most Happiest Other Those
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Hold Down Without Staying
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

Good Quality Better Bad
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Common Excellence Thing Way
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Succeed Patience Explain Begun
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Rise Above Cloud Ignorance
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Poem Dignity Learn Race
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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Strength Down Way Exerting
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Grow Great Convinced Education
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Least Miserable Happiest People
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Lift Else Someone Yourself
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

Right Feel Sure Done
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Success always leaves footprints.

Footprint Leave Success Always
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Happy Opportunity Someone Worth
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The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.

World Able Care Little
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

Evil Attention Action Alone
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Cultivate Weak Love Unfortunate
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In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Great Proportion Degree Happiness
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Exercise Privilege Vastly Important
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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Majority Good Right Truth
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Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Worth Result Except Hard
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Severe Constant Result Progress
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Permit Stoop Hate Never
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In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Social Progress Hand Finger
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Merit Universal Human Reward
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

Polite Grow Result Patient
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Education is not a thing apart from life—not a

Work System Life Education
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Growth Great Trials Remain
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

Gospel Save Sufficient Declare
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Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer,

Today Accept Love Answer
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Sorrow Fear Life Approach
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