You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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