“…He must purge his breast, which is the sanctuary of the abiding love of the Beloved, of every defilement, and sanctify his soul from all that pertaineth to water and clay, from all shadowy and ephemeral attachments. He must so cleanse his heart that no remnant of either love or hate may linger therein, lest that love blindly incline him to error, or that hate repel him away from the truth…” – Baha’u’llah

“I am often asked how long I was in Auschwitz. My answer is: I do not know. But what I do know is that one minute in Auschwitz was like an entire day, a day was like a year, a month an eternity. How many eternities can a person have in a single lifetime? I do not know the answer to that either…” – Roman Kent, Auschwitz survivor, at the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!” – Robert Browning

On a cold winter day… “The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.” ― Emily Dickinson