A path of pleasantness and peace
“Our mission in life is not to shake up the world but to fasten its pegs. Not to climb to the heavens and holler and roar, but to walk softly on the ground. Not to create a storm but rather a dwelling, an earthly home for the essence of G-d.If a storm is needed, so it shall be. As for us, we will continue on our path, the path of Torah, solidly planted on the earth. A path of pleasantness and peace, bringing order to chaos step by step, until all the boundlessness of the Infinite Light is arranged firmly in our world.”
–Tzvi Freeman
Seeing the best in people
“Few are those in life who motivate one to strive to be a more complete person, and even fewer those who are supportive of the capriciousness and eccentricity necessary to get there.”
–Unknown
“A brachah (blessing) is like rain. Just as rain benefits only the plowed and sown field, but a field lying waste, unplowed and unsown, will benefit from neither soft rain, nor the early or later heavy rains — so, too, a blessing will benefit only one who prepares himself to receive it…”
– Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
“I may have written sendmail to solve a local problem at Berkeley, but I continued working on it because I saw that e-mail was going to change the world - or rather, continue to change it - and I felt that change was going to be fundamentally positive, and that sendmail was a big part of that change.”
–Eric Allman
