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  • #1
    Haim Shapira
    “Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace.”
    Haim Shapira, על הדברים החשובים באמת

  • #2
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #5
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #6
    Boris Pasternak
    “When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
    Boris Pasternak

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
    Nietzsche

  • #8
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #10
    Vasily Grossman
    “Good is to be found neither in the sermons of religious teachers and prophets, nor in the teachings of sociologists and popular leaders, nor in the ethical systems of philosophers... And yet ordinary people bear love in their hearts, are naturally full of love and pity for any living thing. At the end of the day's work they prefer the warmth of the hearth to a bonfire in the public square.
    Yes, as well as this terrible Good with a capital 'G', there is everyday human kindness. The kindness of an old woman carrying a piece of bread to a prisoner, the kindness of a soldier allowing a wounded enemy to drink from his water-flask, the kindness of youth towards age, the kindness of a peasant hiding an old Jew in his loft. The kindness of a prison guard who risks his own liberty to pass on letters written by a prisoner not to his ideological comrades, but to his wife and mother.
    The private kindness of one individual towards another; a petty, thoughtless kindness; an unwitnessed kindness. Something we could call senseless kindness. A kindness outside any system of social or religious good.
    But if we think about it, we realize that this private, senseless, incidental kindness is in fact eternal. It is extended to everything living, even to a mouse, even to a bent branch that a man straightens as he walks by.
    Even at the most terrible times, through all the mad acts carried out in the name of Universal Good and the glory of States, times when people were tossed about like branches in the wind, filling ditches and gullies like stones in an avalanche – even then this senseless, pathetic kindness remained scattered throughout life like atoms of radium.”
    Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

  • #14
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #15
    Vasily Grossman
    “I asked you how the Germans could send Jewish children to die in the gas chambers. How, I asked, could they live with themselves after that? Was there really no judgement passed on them by man or God? And you said: Only one judgement is passed on the executioner – he ceases to be a human being. Through looking on his victim as less than human, he becomes his own executioner; he executes the human being inside himself. But the victim – no matter what the executioner does to kill him – remains a human being forever”
    Vasily Grossman, Everything Flows

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
    some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
    some lose both and become accepted”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #18
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #19
    Anton Chekhov
    “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
    Anton Chekhov
    tags: love

  • #20
    A.A. Milne
    “Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #21
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
    Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life

  • #23
    Emmanuel Levinas
    “Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.”
    Emmanuel Levinas

  • #24
    Marcel Proust
    “Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #25
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #25
    George Saunders
    “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
    George Saunders

  • #26
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Não sou nada.
    Nunca serei nada.
    Não posso querer ser nada.
    À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.”
    Fernando Pessoa, Tabacaria e Outros Poemas

  • #27
    Wisława Szymborska
    “We have a soul at times.
    No one’s got it non-stop,
    for keeps.

    Day after day,
    year after year
    may pass without it.

    Sometimes
    it will settle for awhile
    only in childhood’s fears and raptures.
    Sometimes only in astonishment
    that we are old.

    It rarely lends a hand
    in uphill tasks,
    like moving furniture,
    or lifting luggage,
    or going miles in shoes that pinch.

    It usually steps out
    whenever meat needs chopping
    or forms have to be filled.

    For every thousand conversations
    it participates in one,
    if even that,
    since it prefers silence.

    Just when our body goes from ache to pain,
    it slips off-duty.

    It’s picky:
    it doesn’t like seeing us in crowds,
    our hustling for a dubious advantage
    and creaky machinations make it sick.

    Joy and sorrow
    aren’t two different feelings for it.
    It attends us
    only when the two are joined.

    We can count on it
    when we’re sure of nothing
    and curious about everything.

    Among the material objects
    it favors clocks with pendulums
    and mirrors, which keep on working
    even when no one is looking.

    It won’t say where it comes from
    or when it’s taking off again,
    though it’s clearly expecting such questions.

    We need it
    but apparently
    it needs us
    for some reason too.”
    Wisława Szymborska

  • #28
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”
    Abraham Joshua Heschel

  • #29
    A.A. Milne
    “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”
    A.A. Milne

  • #30
    A.A. Milne
    “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

    "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

    "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

    Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
    A.A. Milne



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