What I Want My Kids To Know #30

”There comes in all our lives a time … when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.” –Marcel Proust
What I Want My Kids to Know #29

“Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.” –Leonard Bernstein
What I Want My Kids To Know #28
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” Primo Levi
What I Want My Kids To Know #27
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.–Primo Levi
What I Want My Kids To Know #26
“If life is not intoxicating, it’s nothing.” -Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift
What I Want My Kids to Know #25
“Those who hunt for fun and games are like ‘madmen shooting flaming arrows of death.’” —Shabbetai Elhanan ben Elisha del Vecchio, b. 1707
What I Want My Kids To Know #24
When nothing is sure, everything is possible Clarice Lispector
What I Want My Kids To Know #23

“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” Sarah Bernhardt
What I Want My Kids To Know #22
Your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. (Judith Malina)
What I Want My Kids to Know #21

“Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his […]
What I Want My Kids to Know #20

Sing! Cyrano Moon
What I Want My Kids to Know #19

“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” — Yehuda Bauer
What I Want My Kids To Know #18

If you think you cannot do something, you can’t. If you consider something impossible, it is. Cyrano Moon
What I Want My Kids To Know #17

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Baruch Spinoza
What I Want My Kids To Know #16

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself. — Amedeo Modigliani
What I Want My Kids To Know #15

Know! A person walks in life on a very narrow bridge, The most important thing is not to be afraid. -Nachman of Breslov