A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill

Under history, memory and 
forgetting. 

Under memory and forgetting, 
life.

-Paul Ricoeur

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. -Spanish proverb

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. -Rumi

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -H.L. Mencken

…think more about what (you’ll) leave behind.  -James Turrell

A Benediction by a Negro preacher

Dear God:
We ain’t what we orta be
We ain’t what we’re gonna be
We ain’t what we wanta be
But thank God
We ain’t what we wuz

-from Eleanor Roosevelt’s purse on the day of her death

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. -Washington Irving