Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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