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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To be is to stand for.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender
To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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