Ten Soulful Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.

1. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

2. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.”

3. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

4. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

5. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

6. “Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

7. “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”

8. “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

9. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

10. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”