When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

I’m doing the best I can. But I’ve never grown old before. I’m doing it for the first time. And I’m not sure that I’ll do it right.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

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