Paul Oppenheimer

“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”
― St. Teresa of Avila

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems