“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
Anne Frank
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth”
Albert Einstein
“You can never control your own thoughts. You may think you can, but everyone around you has influenced your views; no man is an island. You may think you are swaying your thoughts on your own free will, but you must remember: your ground is tilted.”
Melissa Mitchell
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”
William Irwin Thompson
