Martin Luther King Jr. · From his last presidential address to the SCLC, Atlanta, 16 August 1967; the popular "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear" splices this with a line a few sentences later, "hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love."
Attributed to Maya Angelou · Her most shared line on love, but no book, speech or interview has been found for it; quote collectors list it as "original not located".
Helen Keller · Her answer on the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s when an audience member asked whether she wanted her sight more than anything else in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi · From the autobiography, in the chapter on his early married life; standard English translation of the Gujarati original.
Henry David Thoreau · The original behind the popular paraphrase "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined", which Thoreau never wrote.
Oprah Winfrey · Harvard Commencement address, 30 May 2013.
Viktor Frankl · Written from his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps.
Eleanor Roosevelt · From the same pages as "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Oscar Wilde · Spoken by Lord Darlington in Act III of the play.
Albert Einstein · Follows "I believe in intuition and inspiration" in the collection of his sayings published in 1931.
Nelson Mandela · The closing pages of his autobiography, written after his release and his election as South Africa's president.
Helen Keller · Written late in life by a woman who was deaf and blind from the age of nineteen months.
Steve Jobs · From his Stanford commencement address of 12 June 2005, given a year after his first cancer diagnosis.
Martin Luther King Jr. · From the sermon "Loving Your Enemies", first preached at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery in 1957 and published in his 1963 sermon collection.
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