Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Every little deed counts.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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