Echoes

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. I look back at the world I've left behind. What message do I want to leave? I want to make sure that you all understand that each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it. You may not find it. But your life matters, and you are here for a reason. And I just hope that that reason will become apparent as you live through your life. I want you to know that, whether or not you find that role that you find that role that you are supposed to play, your life does matter and that every single day you live, you make a difference in the world. And you get to choose the difference that you make.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Though the whole world should praise him, he would not be stimulated to greater endeavour, and though the whole world should condemn him, he would not be depressed. So fixed was he in the difference between the internal judgement of himself and the external judgement of others.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

Out of my experience, such as it is (and it is limited enough) one fixed conclusion dogmatically emerges, and that is this, that we with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves. ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. Just so there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother-sea or reservoir.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.