Effron And Associates Quotes & Sayings

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy

She remembered a story she had once heard: a woman had gossiped about her neighbors and later regretted what she said. She went to the rabbi and asked how she might take back her words. He instructed her to take a feather pillow to the top of the highest hill and tear it open, letting the feathers fly every which way. Then, the rabbi said, she should return to him and he would tell her what to do. She did as he said and when she returned, he told her to go outside and gather the feathers. But that's impossible, she cried. They're already scattered all over the village. He looked at her and smiled. The same is true of your words, he said. — Tova Mirvis

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky. — David Rakoff

Just keep waking up,
dragging yourself out of bed.
It will get better. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves. — Saul Bellow