Everyone must carry two pieces of paper with him and look at them every day. On one it is written: “Your are as dust and ashes.” And on the other: “For you the universe was created.”
- Rabbinic Saying

When you are floating in a sea of helplessness, you must find some concrete way to express your freely embraced deepest commitment.
-ortberg

Your body is not you. Your success, reputation, and possessions are not you. What your parents, boss, peers, friends, or enemies think of you is not you. Your circumstances and limitations are not you. “There is a you in you nobody put there.”
-Ortberg