2017 Letters
Listen to the Voices
My advice is: "Go outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has
to offer. Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the
beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."
--Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl”
Prophet
Thus it would seem that any effort to replace brute force by the might of an ideal is, under present conditions, doomed to fail. Our
logic is at fault if we ignore the fact that right is founded on brute force and even today needs violence to maintain it.
――Sigmund Freud, Letter to Einstein
Starry Night
So, whenever I am feeling heartsick and oppressed and jaded and sad those memories return to freshen and revive me, even as drops of evening dew return to freshen and revive, after a sultry day, the poor faded flower which has long been drooping in the noontide heat.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk
Messenger
The very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi, letter to Julian Huxley