The whole of humanity is…one human family. This planet is our only home. -His Holiness the Dalai Lama
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. -Albus Dumbledore
“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” - Proverbs 31:25 . It’s how I try to live my life.
Susan
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
-Margaret Sanger
You live by this quote?
And aside from the pot-stirring…
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dream’t of in your philosophy.”
–Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)
“I’ll try anything once.” - Bugs Bunny
“Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity” -Hanlon
I spend all my working hours working towards that end, both in the sense of ensuring safe access, counselling women on all their options (not just abortion), and helping to prevent unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place, so that abortions should happen as infrequently as is humanly possible.
So, yes, you could say I do 
I live by a couple of short sweet lines:
Blaze your trail. - No idea where I picked this up…
Play chicken with the future. - Paul Graham (this quote is taken wholly out of context. but it’s still an awesome quote)
and “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
Galatians 6:9
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. "
“Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy”. - Aristotle
“It’s a good excuse, but it is still an excuse”. - Kyosah
Regards,
Shodan
“My life is perfect because I accept it like it is”
- Lenny Kravitz
“To give is better than to lend, and it costs about the same.” --my dad.
The quote about moderation in everything, including moderation, is, I believe, from {b]Lost Horizon**.
“The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.”
“…twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
I don’t remember who said it, but my friend Georgie often quotes it.
Never try to bulls–t, an old bulls–tter. - My Dad.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new poblem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
-Robert. A. Heinlein (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)
-DF
“Admit nothing, deny nothing.” – David Mamet
Stranger
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
I like that short poem by Robert Frost; it picks me up a bit.
“Never turn down a job you haven’t been offered.” - my best friend
Actually, this serves me well in all kinds of arenas, not just work.