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• Nothing else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Topics in Belief, Life

  Tags in Believe, Learning, Credo, Creed, Important

• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Credo, Creed, Simple

• Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy

  Saint Francis of Assisi

  Topics in Joy, Love

  Tags in Faith, Forgiveness, Despair, Creed, Credo

• What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Meaning, Creed, Credo, Happy

• I believe in cultivating opposite, but complementary views of life, and I believe in meeting life’s challenges with contradictory strategies. I believe in reckoning with the ultimate meaninglessness of our existence, even as we fall in love with the miracle of being alive. I believe in working passionately to make our lives count while never losing sight of our insignificance. I believe in caring deeply and being beyond caring. It is by encompassing these opposites, by being involved and vulnerable, but simultaneously transcendent and detached, that our lives are graced by resilience and joy.

  Fritz Williams

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Credo, Creed, Believe

• There are two Newman’s laws. The first one is “It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.” The second is “Just when things look darkest, they go black.”

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pessimism, Creed, Credo, Useless

• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Opinion, Heaven, Freedom, Thinking, Creed, Credo

• All the lessons of history in four sentences:
  Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
  The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
  The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
  When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

  Charles Austin Beard

  Topics in Advice, Power

  Tags in Creed, Credo, Enough

• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conflict, Purpose, Conscience, Difficulties, Creed, Credo

• The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

  Robert Byrne

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose, Creed, Credo

• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate — that’s my philosophy.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Now, Questions, Philosophy, Credo, Creed

• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Regret, Creed, Credo, Energy

• What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

  Topics in Belief, Religion

  Tags in Credo, Creed, American, Political

• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Good, Globalism, Creed, Credo

• A Humanist Code of Ethics:

  Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.

  Being is more important than having.

  Never promote yourself at another’s expense.

  Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.

  Allow each person the digity of his or her labor.

  Open your home to the wayfarer.

  Be ready to receive your deepest dreams;

  sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.

  Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.

  Never think less of yourself than you are.

  Never think that you are more than another.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Reverence, Humanism, Credo, Creed

• I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what i cannot do interfere with what i can do.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Topics in Commitment, Service

  Tags in Limitations, Indifference, Responsibility, Purpose, Creed, Credo, Action

• To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in, and
  To lend a hand.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Topics in Commitment, Future, Service

  Tags in Generosity, Giving, Credo, Creed

• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Topics in Life, Service

  Tags in Heart, Creed, Credo

• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Politics, Service

  Tags in Credo, Creed, Expected

• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  William Ewart Gladstone

  Topics in Education, Service

  Tags in Purpose, Creed, Credo, Improvement