"Had I not fallen, I would not have arisen. Had I not been subject to darkness, I would not have seen the light."
-Midrash
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"Had I not fallen, I would not have arisen. Had I not been subject to darkness, I would not have seen the light."
-Midrash
"You can listen to silence. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it."
-Chaim Potok, The Chosen
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
-Charles Dickens
“To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.”
—Bodhidharma
“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume”
-William Shakespeare
Artwork: Truth, Time and History, Francisco Goya
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
-Kahlil Gibran
Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-Maya Angelou
"It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will."
-J. Krishnamurti
"These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb."
-Najwa Zebian
"I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song."
-Rainer Maria Rilke