We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
-Seth Godin
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
-Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Jr.
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
-Voltaire
Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God’s gratitude.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke