"To conquer others is to have power. To conquer yourself is to know the way." -Lao Ma

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" -Albert Einstein

"I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific." -Lily Tomlin

"We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand" -Chinese Proverb

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask me why I have no monument than why I have one" -Cato the Elder

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon" - Susan Ertz

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" - Albert Einstein

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds" - George Eliot

"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?" - Jane Wagner

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least" - Goethe

"We write our own destiny. We become what we do." - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." - Juvenal

"I disagree with what you say, but will fight to the death your right to say it."
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"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are." -Mother Teresa

"Of course I convert. I convert you to be a better Hindu or a better Muslim or a better Protestant. Once you've found God, it's up to you to decide how to worship him." -Mother Teresa

"Be the change you want to see in the world." -Gandhi

"Love is not blind, it sees more, not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less." -Rabbi Julius Gordon

Vegetarian Quotes:

Those who cannot speak need your voice!

"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." -- -Plutarch

The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock- food for the well-off- while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation."

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people since this has also been done since the earliest of times." -Isaac Bashevic Singer

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -Albert Einstein

"The vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effects on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." -Einstein

"When you see the Golden Arches you are probably on the road to the pearly gates." -William Castelli, M.D.

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." -- -Leonardo da Vinci

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." -- Harvey Diamond

"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
-- Charles Darwin

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore."
-- Franz Kafka

"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."
-- Ingrid Newkirk

"I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me."
-- Alex Poulos

"A missionary was walking in Africa when he heard the ominous padding of a lion behind him. 'Grant in Thy goodness that the lion walking behind me is a good Christian lion'. And then, in the silence that followed, the missionary heard the lion praying too. 'Oh Lord' he prayed, 'We thank thee for the food which we are about to recieve.'" -Cleveland Amory

"It is easy to take a stand on a remote issue but [one] reveals his true nature when the issue comes nearer to home. To protest about bullfighting in Spain or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat chickens that have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves that have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs exteded, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your [white] neighbors not to sell their house to blacks." -Peter Singer

More vegetarian quotes

"-To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
-To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a pre-mature baby.
-To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
-To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
-To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
-To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
-To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

- Teen.com The Daily Rag Issue

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