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A WISE PERSON ONCE SAID...
"I expect to pass through the world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show
to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it,
for I shall not pass this way again."
Stephen Grellet, 18th/19th-century French-American religious philosopher

"We cannot do everything at once,
but we can do something at once."
Calvin Coolidge, American president


"I long to accomplish some great
and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as
if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller, 20th-century American
social activist, public speaker and author

Hellen Keller with Calvin Coolidge (1926)
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th-century French philosopher

"Until he extends the circle of his
compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace."

"A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can
sleep at night and do it again the next day."
Albert Schweitzer, early 20th-century
German Nobel Peace Prize-winning mission doctor
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
Thomas Carlyle, 19th-century Scots-English historian, author

"What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are small matters compared
to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist and poet

"Nothing can bring you
peace but yourself.
Nothing can bring you
peace but the triumph
of principles."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No act of kindness,
no matter how small,
is ever wasted."
Aesop, ancent
Greek moralist

"Compassion is the
basis of morality."
Arnold Schopenhauer,
early 19th-century
German philosopher
"I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do some-thing. And, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do what I can."
Edwin Hale

"Our lives teach us who we are."
Salman Rushdie, 20th-century Anglo-Indian novelist

"You can easily judge the character
of a man by how he treats those
who can do nothing for him."
Goethe, 18th/19th-century German poet,
novelist, playwright and philosopher
"Real generosity is
doing something nice
for someone who
will never find out."
Frank A. Clark

"To protect those who are not able to protect themselves
is a duty which every one owes to society."
Edward Macnaghten

"The difference between the impossible and
the possible lies in a man's determination."
Tommy Lasorda, Los Angeles Dodger as
a player, scout, coach, manager, and an executive

"Men are only great
as they are kind."
Elbert Hubbard, 19th/20th-century
American entrepreneur and philosopher
"Compassion is the basis
of morality."
Arnold Schopenhauer, early
19th-century German philosopher
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
G.K. Chesterton, 19th-century English essayist and poet

"I ask people why they have deer heads
on their walls. They say, 'Because it's
such a beautiful animal.' There you go.
I think my mother's attractive,
but I have photographs of her...
Ellen DeGeneres, Actress and Comedian

Compassion is like a springwater
coming up from the ground,
and it can be used to sustain everyone.
Dainin Katagiri, Zen Buddhist Monk
You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight


"Make positive effort for the good."
quoted by author Natalie Goldberg in
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

LINE PLEASE?
Character quotes to be remembered...

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives, and when he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

...You've been given a great gift...a chance to see what the world would be like without you.

...you really had a wonderful life.

Clarence Oddbody, AS2
in "It's A Wonderful Life"
by Henry Travers

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.


Dowd, Elwood P. in "Harvey"
by Jimmy Stewart


The lack of humility before nature
that's being displayed here staggers me...
your scientists were so preoccupied
with whether or not they could
that they never stopped to think
whether they should.

Dr. Ian Malcolm
in "Jurassic Park"
by Jeff Goldblum

No. Try not.
Do or do not.
There is no try.

Jedi Master Yoda
in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
Voiced by Frank Oz


C-3PO:

Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.

Han Solo:

Never tell me the odds.

Han Solo & C3PO
"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
by Harrison Ford & Anthony Daniels

Buffy:
 ...with mom at Aunt Darlene's this year, I'm not getting a Thanksgiving. Maybe it's just as well.
Anya:
Well, I think that's a shame.
I love a ritual sacrifice.
Buffy:
 It's not really a one of those.
Anya:
To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice... with pie.
Buffy Summers & Anya in "Pangs"
episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Sarah Michelle Gellar & Emma Caufield

C'mon you guys. It's a known fact that lobsters
fall in love and mate for life...You know what,
you can actually see old lobster couples
walkin' around their tank, holding claws like...

Phoebe Buffay
in "Friends" Eps 214
by Lisa Kudrow

But I don't want to be a pie!

Babs in "Chicken Run"
Voiced by Jane Horrocks

It all starts here, in the high density feed lot.
Then, when the cattle are just right. Yum,
it's time for them to graduate from Bovine University.
Come on Jimmy, let's take a peek at the killing floor...
Don't let the name throw you Jimmy. It's not really a
floor, it's more of a steel grating that allows material
to sluice through so it can be collected and exported.
Troy McClure, Voiced by Phil Hartman, and...

I don't think I can dissect an animal. I think it's wrong...It's bad enough they're all eating meat. They don't have to rub it in my face...

When will all those fools learn that you
can be perfectly healthy simply eating
vegetables, fruits, grains and cheese.
Lisa Simpson Voiced by Yeardley Smith
  "Lisa the Vegetarian" episode
of "The Simpsons"

CLOSING CREDITS: Keller/Coolidge photo source: The Helen Keller Foundation, photo credit: American Foundation for the Blind; Albert Schweitzer photo source: SchweitzerFellowship.org; Ralph W. Emerson photo source: RWE.org; ant image source: Getty Images. Many of the quotations were provide from: Josephson Institute of Ethics. "Harvey" image and sound files from Harvey's Pooka Page. "Chicken Run" image: Yahoo! Movies. Goldblum: IMDB. Lisa Kudrow: NBC "Friends" page. Lasorda: Keppler Associates Speakers Bureau. Lisa Simpson image from LisaSimpson.net. Ellen Degeneres borrowed from Ellen-Degeneres.com. Dainin Katagiri from You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight; Dick Bend, photographer.