It is hard to fight with anger;
for what it wants it buys at the price of soul.
-- Heraclitus

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
-- Patrick Henry

"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."
-- Albert Schweitzer

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"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"No one is useless in this world that lightens the burden of another."
-- Charles Dickens

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
-- Bruce Barton

"Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste."
-- Chief Seattle, Suqwamish and Duwamish tribes

"From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a unifying life force that flowed in and through all things--the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals--and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery."
-- Chief Luther Standing Bear, Teton Sioux tribe

"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth."
-- Chief Seattle, Suqwamish and Duwamish tribes

"A drop in the ocean partakes of the greatness of its parent, although it is unconscious of it. But it is dried up as soon as it enters upon an existence independent of the ocean. We do not exaggerate when we say that life is a mere bubble."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"United be your purpose, harmonious be your feelings, collected be your mind, in the same way as all the various aspects of the universe exist together in togetherness, wholeness."
-- Rik Samhita, 10.194.4

"The world is my family."
-- Maha Upanishad, 6.71

"Let us be together,
Let us eat together,
Let us be vital together,
Let us be radiating truth, radiating the light of life,
Never shall we denounce anyone, never entertain negativity."
-- Upanishads (intro to several Upanishads)

"An assembly is significant in unity."
-- Rik Samhita, 10.191.3

"In the vicinity of coherence, hostile tendencies are eliminated."
-- Yoga Sutras, 2.35