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“It is with religion as with marriage. A youth marries in haste; afterwards, when his mind is opened to the reason of the conduct of life, he is asked, what he thinks of the institution of marriage, and of the right relations of the sexes. 'I should have much to say,' he might reply, 'if the question were open, but I have a wife and children, and all question is closed for me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson: The Ultimate Collection

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
― Kim Lim, 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom

“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings—it’s all a miracle. —Arthur Rubinstein”
― Kim Lim, 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom

“The Walrus and the Carpenter By Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)”
― Elsinore Books, The Best of Poetry: Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn: In Two Hundred Poems

“She was always teaching. "When you learn, teach," she said frequently. "When you get, give." I was a devoted student, learning from her up to the moment of our very last conversation, on the Sunday before she died.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it—always. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Kim Lim, 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But … the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?” —Martin Luther King, Jr.”
― Kim Lim, 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom

“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but all religions come from that hope. —Robert G. Ingersoll”
― Kim Lim, 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom

“Life is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes. —Charles Edward Jerningham”
― Kim Lim, 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom

“It isn’t knowing, but remembering, that makes us create.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry