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To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in read more
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
Patience means self-suffering.
Patience means self-suffering.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth read more
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we read more
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
