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"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately."
"Think higher, feel deeper."
"We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it."
"When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'"
"There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference."
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."
"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity."
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
"I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all."
"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day."
"you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares."
"In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word."
"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
"Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge."
"For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream."
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love."
"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming."
"An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman"
"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."