Cool Quotes for Shevat

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
-  Moshe Dayan

As the eye needs light to see, so the soul needs labor to comprehend.
- Philo, "Sacrifices of Abel and Cain"

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
-  Charles C. West

Just when you are reduced materially, take care not to be impoverished also spiritually.
- J. Kimhi, "Shekel HaKodesh"

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
-  E.L. Simpson

If you want to praise, praise God; if you want to blame, blame yourself.
- Bahya, quoted by Schechter, "Seminary Addresses"

Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
-  A.C. Jolly

Conscience is God’s presence in man.
-  Emanuel Swedenborg

When is prayer heard? When the soul is subdued.
- Al-Harizi, "Tahkemoni"

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
-  Elvis Presley

Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from yesterday.
-  John Wayne

Everything should be made as simple as possible--but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
-  Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"

[Posted 12/10/04]