These are a few of my favourite quotes...

lifetheuniverseandeverything:

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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. 

We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.” —Mother Teresa

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. —Bertrand Russell

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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. —Rumi

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. —Rainer Maria Rilke

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearnings. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could. —Louise Erdrich

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You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. —Gandhi

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Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. —Euripides

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. —George Eliot

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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

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This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. —Walt Whitman

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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.  —Willa Cather

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Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope. —Cornel West

“Why won’t you leave me alone?”
Believe me, I wanted to say, I’ve tried.
Oh, and also, I’m wretchedly in love with you.

— Midnight Sun (Stephanie Meyer)