Jacek

“You haven't been conscripted and I have to delay my return home so I'll stay with you while you tell me about these good people you've seen. One doesn't encounter good people every day and people don't see the good in others. You are blessed, Mr. Jakob, that God has brought good people to you and that you have discovered them to be good.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

“Handed down to each person is a kind of thread. Either you can follow that thread all the way to God—or you can tangle the thread, and stumble and strangle in the knots, and lose sight of the right direction and go astray.”
― Hamid Ismailov, Of Strangers and Bees

“I wanted to say something as a man does who suddenly finds himself in a quiet place but I said nothing, like a man who suddenly finds himself in a quiet place and also keeps quiet.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

“For thou hast from me as a gift thy own being only, and no more; and therefore the creatures of thy hand and mind can live only by that being, moving when thou thinkest to move them, and if thy thought be elsewhere, standing idle.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion