No work is insignificant.  All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity.   (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.  (Helen Keller)

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  (John Muir)

The task before us, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. (Teilhard deChardin SJ)

When we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves.  (David Orr)

When we discover that there is in us a universal heart – we will have finally become a fully human, human being.  (Joan Chittister, OSB)

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, where less can be more. …

One is called to live nonviolently even if the change one works for seems impossible.  (Daniel Berrigan)

By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong. (Dewitt Jones)

The most profound expression of our spirituality is incarnational, Christ in you. It is so profound that Jesus says, 'apart from me, you can do nothing.  (Bob Holmes)