27 quotes found
“We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of thisthe p...”
“If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.”
“Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.”
“..moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bibles puzzles; and it was always there in the ...”
“Weve made it private, contained it in family, when its audacity is in its potential to cross tribal lines. Weve fetishized it as romance, when its true measure is a quality of sustained, practical ...”
“Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.”
“At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.”
“A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.”
“Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.”
“The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.”
“To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.”
“On the canvas of life,with the brushes of goodness, love and passion, paint your randomness, dynamism & desire to show your "art of living" to the world.”
“Im strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest ...”
“The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing...”
“A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.”
“God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it...”
“Im drawn to the Jewish notion of the soul, nephesh, which is not something preexistent but emergentforming in and through physicality and relational experience. This suggests that we need our bodie...”
“My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn a...”
“People are beautiful when they share things.”
“The conundrum of the twenty-first (century) is that with the best intentions of color blindness, and laws passed in this spirit, we still carry instincts and reactions inherited from our environmen...”
