Archives - November 2021

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Energy is eternal delight.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

We all need to have a creative outlet --- a window, a space --- so we don't lose track of ourselves.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

The simple act of practicing gratitude, consistently, is your invitation to a new life. Accepting the invitation is now up to you.

Buy what you don’t have yet or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

The lights of the Hanukkah menorah that we kindle in our homes are a reminder both of the Menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem and the light that shines brightly within each one of us.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.