Some of my favorite quotes

This is a somewhat random collection of quotes that inspire me or echo something within. Hope they bring as much delight to the reader as they have brought me.

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”
E. E. Cummings

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”
E. E. Cummings

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
Haile Selassie

“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.”
Kalu Rinpoche

“Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.”
Ajahn Chah

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
Bob Marley

“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Albert Einstein

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
Albert Einstein

“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
Malcolm X

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.”
Malcolm X

“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary.”
Malcolm X

“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
Karl Marx

“I am not a Hindu,
Nor a Muslim am I!
I am this body, a play
Of five elements; a drama
Of the spirit dancing
With joy and sorrow.”
Kabir

“It is the mind that makes the body.”
Sojourner Truth