Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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