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Seeking profundity in the mundane and the Divine in the details.

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people — Victor Borge
Justice is what love looks like in public. — Cornel West
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Hemingway
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin
An artist’s duty is to stay open-minded and in a state where s/he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. — Nick Cave
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

– Margaret Mead

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is a goal, but not a destination. –
Gillian Smith
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. –
Proverb
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.” –
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. – Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
– Bernard Meltzer

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin

Nature is God’s intelligent design. – Paul Stamets

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. – Nelson Mandela

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again. – Mike Myers

Good works are links that form a chain of love. — Mother Teresa

Everybody wants the same thing, rich or poor … not only a warm, dry room, but a shelter for the soul. — Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart.

To defend oneself against fear is to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. — James Baldwin

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. — Reinhold Niebuhr

It turns out it might actually be possible to run a large, profitable corporation and still have something resembling a conscience, an idea that seems almost antithetical to the brutal capitalist ideal of money-uber-alles. — Mark Morford

Why didn’t Jesus write anything? Because once you write something down…it becomes dogma. — Margaret Atwood

The highest revelation is that God is in every man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it’s realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: ‘I despair. The world’s no good.’ That’s a perverse idealist. It’s practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That’s very realistic. — Studs Terkel

Time exists so that not everything happens at once. — Unknown

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra

Love and prayer are nothing else but the highest form of attention. – Simone Weil

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein

For the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures. – Flannery O’Connor

A lesson learned with humor is a lesson learned. – The Talmud

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. –Anne Lamott

Life is too important to be taken seriously. –Oscar Wilde

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