Series: Deep Thoughts

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there….We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. –Edward Abbey

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. –Orwell, 1984

A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first. –The Talmud

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. –Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. –Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. –Albert Einstein

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Martin Luther King Jr.

One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime. –Dale Coleman

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known. –Hugh Prather