It is not possible to be fully human without coming to know, to respect, to learn from, the rest of life.  We were not put on this earth alone.  We were put here to grow in concert with everything else.

Joan Chittister O.S.B. 

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

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

Robert Swan.  

There is a straight line between love and suffering.  If we love greatly, it is fairly certain we will soon suffer, because we have somehow given up control to another.  That is my simple definition of suffering: whenever we are not in control. 

Richard Rohr