“It is not new people, places, can horizons we seek but new eyes through which to see.”
- Yehuda Berg
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“Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family, friends, neighbors and the woman who you hardly notice who cleans your office.”
—Eric Weiner; author, national public radio correspondent
“Know before whom you stand.”
- as seen in the Beit Midrash
“To have passion means to feel, to risk, to dream, and to live. We only have one life in our lifetime - let’s not waste it.”
- Joyce Meyers
i dare you, p. 23
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.”
- Natalie Goldberg
from the introduction
Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
“A diplomat is someone who thinks twice before saying nothing.”
- Anonymous
“We should learn from the mistakes of others. We don’t have time to make them all ourselves.”
- Groucho Marx
“But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first getting estimates and then checking to see if there is enough money to pay the bills? Otherwise, you might complete only the foundation before running out of funds. And then how everyone would laugh at you! They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and ran out of money before it was finished!’”
Luke 14:28-31
“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will beat a path to his door.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is a luxury to be understood.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson