Be the First to Condemn Injustice

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If everyone howled at every injustice,
every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness,
then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
- Nelson DeMille

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to
agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
- Bryant H. McGill

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
-Steve Maraboli

Further reading: Do Right

Being Big - Standing Tall

A Single Step

Unconditional Love

Do What You Can Do

All Different - All One 
          

Gratitiude, a Prime Value

When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns,
but never looking up to see where they come from.
- Timothy Dexter

Gratitude and greed are directly opposite states of human existence.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Humility: a Prime Virtue

Gleaning

Gratitude for the Journey
      

Ungrateful

When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns,
but never looking up to see where they come from.
- Timothy Dexter

Gratitude and greed are directly opposite states of human existence.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Humility: a Prime Virtue

Gleaning

Martin Luther King quotes

Gratitude for the Journey
   

Attitude toward Gratitude

When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude and greed are directly opposite states of human existence.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Humility: a Prime Virtue

Gratitude for a Helping Hand

Rejoice and Be Thankful

A Thankful Heart

Feeling Blessed

More Quotes about Gratitude

Injustice

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

If everyone howled at every injustice,
every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness,
then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
- Nelson DeMille

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to
agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
- Bryant H. McGill

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
-Steve Maraboli

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner

Further reading:  Being Big - Standing Tall

Doing Right

A Single Step

Do What You Can Do

Unconditional Love

All Different - All One

Justice

Hope

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
- Anonymous

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
- Albert Einstein

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God.
It is a gift only we can give one another.
- Elie Wiesel

Further reading: How to Think Positive

9 Secrets For Getting Un-Stuck

12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

What I Know - What I Don't Know

Five Questions to Ask Yourself When You Feel Sad for No Apparent Reason

Comforting Quotes

Hope Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

One dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Affirmation: Today I have gratitude for ALL of life.

Further reading: A List of Gratitudes

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Zero-Based Gratitude

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

GRATITUDE - the third Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Elie Wiesel: When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

Consider that, in some sense, gratitude and greed are directly opposite states of human existence.

Further reading: We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart - jlh

What is Honor? Is there a place for Honor today?

Lao Tzu: Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained.

This Above All, To Thine Own Self Be True - 5 Ways to Apply William Shakespeare's Advice Today

Elie Wiesel: The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference

In response to my quote, Do your best, and always accept life as it comes, I received the objection that I couldn't possibly expect Holocaust survivors to accept what happened to them. I don't expect anything, but I do believe that happiness for each of us lies in freeing ourselves from all resentments of the past - whatever that past.

Acceptance and forgiveness are very similar ... perhaps even the same thing, Reread my message on forgiveness in which two women are dealing with forgiveness of childhood sexual abuse.

Understand that your acceptance of everything that happened in the past and your forgiveness for everything that occurred or failed to occur are gifts you give yourself ... to release your anger and regain your happiness. In the words of A Course in Miracles, "Would you rather be right or happy?" Rape survivors, Holocaust survivors, and each of us need to answer that question for ourselves.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, understood that the meaning of his life lay in the future rather than the past. No atrocity is grounds for abdicating our happiness today and tomorrow. At the same time, don't mistake acceptance of the past with inaction in the present. Today is the day to focus on creating a world free from atrocities in our neighborhoods and around the globe.

As William Shakespeare said, "What's done is done." The path to happiness lies in accepting whatever happened in the past as unchangeable fact, giving up all resentments, and focusing on the present with new eyes.