• Even the smallest pebble dropped in a silent pond moves the entire pond.

• Nobody leaves us, we only leave others. (memories last forever)
• You can't know where you're going unless you know where you've been

• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

• Where there is love, distance doesn't matter. Even though it may be far far away.Mata Amritanandamayi

• All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us. Kevin Arnold (Daniel Stern) narrating in The Wonder Years (1988)

• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• If I know what love is, it is because of you. Hermann Hesse

• Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin Jones?????????????????

• All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.Leo Tolstoy

Mahatma Gandhi

• The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live.
• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
• To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.
• Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

• We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
• My life is my message.

• I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
• There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
• We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

• Hope is eternal - Its worship never goes in vain.

• Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
• (When beginning a protest against the British rule of India, by breaking a law whereby Indians were not permitted to manufacture salt from seawater. Spoken after picking up a piece of raw salt from the seashore.) With this salt I am shaking the foundations of the [British] empire.

• The more subtle a force is, the more effective it becomes. Love is the greatest force in the world.

• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. Truth is God and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
• I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.
• Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion — human religion — but any number of faiths.
• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
• I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil. — Albert Einstein

• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. — Marian Wright Edelman
• Gandhi was a pacifist, but we might suspect him to have been something of a "militant pacifist" at heart: he would have used force to prevent those who sought to make war from carrying out their aims. — Clive Howard
• 
  

Albert Einstein

• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

• A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

• Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.In reference to the death of Mahatma Gandhi
• I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.

• If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

• I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
• If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.
• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
• It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
• Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
• Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
• Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
• The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
• The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

• There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
• The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
• The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
• A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot.
• What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
• A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
• Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
  The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
• If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity.
• 
  

Tupac

• TuPac Shakur

• "You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either grow or disappear."
• "Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."
• "When I speak, I want my words to mean something. I want my words to make people shiver."
• "I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven."
• "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
• "During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams."
• "I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world."
• I kiss my Mama goodbye, and wipe the tears from her lonely eyes/Said I'll return but I gotta fight the fate's arrived/Don't shed a tear, cause Mama I ain't happy here/I'm through trial, no more smiles, for a couple years (I Ain't Mad Atcha)
• To all my homies never made it home/The dead peers I shed tattoo tears for, when I'm alone
• So many other things for us to see/Things to be, our history so full of tragedy and misery
• Just think of all the people that you knew in the past/that passed on, they in heaven, found peace at last
• Picture a place that they exist, together/There has to be a place better than this, in heaven/So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm askin/Remember this face, save me a place, in thug's mansion
• Mo' nigga mo' nigga mo' niggaz/I'd rather be dead than a po' nigga/Let the Lord judge the criminals/If I die, I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
• Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is/it ain't no hope for tha future
• And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but/please... you got to keep your head up
• It's a small thang through and true/What could I do? Real homies help ya get through,
• Supreme ideology, you claim to hold/Claimin that we all drug dealers with empty souls
• But we must have hope, quotin the reverand from the pulpit/Refuse to turn the other cheek we must defeat the evil culprit
• Lace me with words of destruction and I'll explode/but supply me with the will to survive, and watch the world grow
• I'm seein nuttin but my dreams comin true/While I'm starin at the world through my rearview
• It's just another murder, nobody mourns no more/My tear drops gettin bigger but can't figure what I'm cryin for
• I hate the man in the mirror/Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer
• And all the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain I feel inside/You know, it's like I'm livin just to die
• Am I cold or is it just I sold my soul?/Addicted to these streets, never find true peace I'm told
• In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.
• My Mama used to tell me if you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
• The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
• We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.
• I'm not saying I'm gonna rule the world but if I keep talking about how dirty it is, someone will have to clean it up.
• T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E stands for The Hate U Give Lil Infants Fucks Everybody
• N.I.G.G.A stands for Never Ignorant about Getting Goals Accomplished or No Ignorance Got Goals Accomplished
• During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.
• Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
• The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all Black shit. I'm on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there's some [foul] niggaz out there [in the streets]; the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus Christ- every brother ain't a brother. They will do you. So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean it's evil.
• I see no changes. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself/"Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?"
• I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black/My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
• It's time to fight back, that's what Huey said, 2 shots in the dark, now Huey's dead.
• I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere/unless we share with each other
• We gotta start makin' changes/learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers/and that's how it's supposed to be/How can another take a brother if he's close to me?
• I see no changes all I see is racist faces/misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
• We gotta make a change. It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.
• Be grateful for blessings/Don't ever change, keep your essence
• There was no mercy on the streets, I couldn't rest/I'm barely standin, bout to go to pieces, screamin peace
• I'm fallin to the floor; beggin for the Lord to let me in/to Heaven's door
• Ya just workin with the scraps you was given/And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin
• And all my childhood memories/Are full of all the sweet things you did for me/And even though I act craaazy/I gotta thank the Lord that you made me
• There are no words that can express how I feel/You never kept a secret, always stayed real/And I appreciate, how you raised me/And all the extra love that you gave me
• Look to my future cause my past, is all behind me/Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?/Everybody's dyin tell me what's the use of tryin
• I've been Trapped since birth, cautious, cause I'm cursed/And fantasies of my family, in a hearse
• And they say it's the white man I should fear/But, it's my own kind doin all the killin here
• Oh my Lord, tell me what I'm livin for/Everybody's droppin got me knockin on heaven's door
• And all my memories, of seein brothers bleed/And everybody grieves, but still nobody sees
• Father forgive us for livin while all my homies stuck in prison/Barely breathin believin that the world is a prison
• It's like a ghetto we can never leave/A broken rose givin bloom to the cracks of the concrete
• So many other things for us to see/Things to be, our history so full of tragedy and misery
• It's not going to stop until we stop it. And it's not just white man that's brain-dead. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's black. And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
• What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.
• It's not just about you taking care of your child. It's about you taking care of these children.Some people say I was a thug and a gangsta. Other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
• But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: "Yo, Shakespeare's dope."
• The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
• Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.
• Measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
• Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living, and my mentality, was part of my progression to be a man.
• You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either grow or disappear.
• Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food. Every day, I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in: We are hungry, please let us in We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to: We hungry, we need some food. After two, three weeks, it's like: Give me the food Or I'm breaking down the door. After a year you're just like: I'm picking the lock Coming through the door blasting; It's like, you hungry, you reached your level. We asked ten years ago. We was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, the Civil Rights Movement. We was asking. Those people that asked are dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do? Ask?