Chava Quotes & Sayings

Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence. — Fatima Bint Muhammad

- I don't want you to love me.
- Too late, mi chava. — Simone Elkeles

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves? — Paul Haggis

I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being? — Sholem Aleichem

As I sat alone at my desk in the dark, I thought about suicide. Sometimes I did that, thought about suicide, though not in an active way - it was more like pulling a lucky stone out of your back pocket. It was a comforting thing to have with you, so you could rub your fingers over it, reassure yourself that it was there if you needed it. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation.
But now what I thought about suicide was this: If I died tonight, everyone would believe this journal was true.
Like Amelia, Chava, and Sally, everyone would forever believe that I had written that diary. Everyone would believe they knew how I "really felt." And how dare they? — Leila Sales

Sally and Chava eat only raw vegetables for lunch because they are trying to lose weight. Then they split a pack of Entenmann's doughnuts for dessert. — Leila Sales

In fact, if perceived as a rude woman, you are far less attractive a target than a polite one. — Gavin De Becker

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition — Robert C. Solomon

Chava," he said, "it's a cruel irony that you have the most difficulty precisely when those around you are on their best behavior. I suspect you would find it much easier if we all cast politeness aside, and took whatever we pleased."
She considered. "It would be easier, at first. But then you might hurt each other to gain your wishes, and grow afraid of each other, and still go on wanting. — Helene Wecker

Chava, I've no doubt you're the best baker in the city. But you can do so much more! Why spend all day making bread when you can lift more than a man's weight, and walk along the bottom of a river?" "And how would I use these abilities without calling attention to myself? Would you have me at a construction pit, hauling blocks of stone? Or should I license myself as a tugboat? — Helene Wecker

We deserve each other, Luis ... and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me."
He steps closer, but hesitates.
"If I do, mi chava, I can't promise I'll be able to let you go. — Simone Elkeles

I am the breeze. I drift and I wander. I meet people and i touch their hearts. but people don't stay with me. They leave me. And I keep on drifting and keep on wandering. That's my life. — Avijeet Das

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do. — Brian Tracy

I'm a chava, a young one. — Thalia

I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too. — Kirk Acevedo