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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and contradictions. They're archived here back to 2002, and a new one is posted every Monday morning. Dialogue is still welcome . . .

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Quote #1202 - #HandleWithCare

08 Sep, 2025

HANDLE WITH CARE


"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death,
it's indifference.
"
Elie Wiesel

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings."
Helen Keller


Apathy.
Indifference.
Carelessness. (Care-less-ness.)
Standing by.
Doing nothing.
That could be the death of us
each
and surely the death
of us all.

That is why
in my mind
the most important quality we bring
to everything we do
(work, play, creating, loving,
parenting, friending,
teaching, learning)
is to care,
to start from a place of caring
and to care throughout the process.

With care, there are
unlimited possibilities--
without care,
pitfalls
dead ends
trip us up
knock us down
bury us.

This is your life.
Allow difference
mess
even chaos.

But not Indifference.

Handle With Care.

Shellen Lubin
September 8, 2025


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