Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition … - Martin Buber

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Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

Martin Buber

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Actualization, Greatest, Men, Repetition, Tasks, Unique

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When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God. ' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

Have Faith, People, Take, Words, World

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Humanly, Love, People, Relate, Surges, Two

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Education, Propaganda, Reading, Real, West

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Adventure, Awareness, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Think

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Depends, Dialogue, Encounters, Hours, Human, Humanity

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Emily Dickinson

I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

Entering, Found, Hurt, Seen, Wine, Years

Gavin DeGraw

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

Height, Heights, Jumping, Way

Scott Berkun

Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

Growth, Practice, Safe, Staying, Temptation, Views

Naz?m Hikmet

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

Stars, Eye, Light, Darkness, Looking

Erich Maria Remarque