13 Year Old Birthday Card Quotes & Sayings

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. — Joseph Joubert

You do not invite experience with your 'yes' and exclude it with your 'no'. There is no exclusion in this attraction-based Universe. Your focus in the invitation. — Esther Hicks

Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn't. Blow something up. But well. — Shalom Auslander

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly. — Anne Ellis

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine. — David Whyte

The marriage of a Jewish son is a bittersweet prospect. There is relief, always, that he has navigated the tantalizing and plentiful assemblies of non-Jewish women to whom the children of the Diaspora are inevitably exposed: from the moment he enters secondary school there is the constant anxiety that a blue-eyed Christina or Mary will lure him away from the tribe. Jewish men are widely known to be uxorious in all the most advantageous ways. And so each mother fears that, whether he be short and myopic, boorish or stupid or prone to discuss his lactose intolerance with strangers, whether he be blessed with a beard rising almost to meet his hairline, he is still within the danger zone. Somewhere out there is a shiksa with designs on her son. Jewish men make good husbands. It is the Jewish woman's blessing as a wife, and her curse as a mother. — Francesca Segal

For as long as there have been heroes, those half-brave, half-mad souls willing to dash headlong against things that would send most of us screaming in the other direction, there have been stories to immortalize their journeys. — Nathan Robert Brown

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.
— Thomas L. Friedman