If You Tell Me About Your Mitzvah Quotes & Sayings

It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. They are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into higher spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still, and men of genius, who partake sometimes of each character, are rare also. Yes, on the whole , it is, perhaps, harder to be a great sinner than a great saint. — Arthur Machen

Sun protection doesn't need to be complicated or expensive - it needs to be consistent. Keep it simple, but do it forever! — Hillary Fogelson

Things, people, and circumstances don't upset you; you upset yourself. You feel the way you think. — Will Ross

I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not. — Kate Chopin

I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview. — Wright Thompson

I merged so completely with love, and was so fused,
that I became Love and Love became me. — Rumi

Like most girls, I want a lot. Fame and fortune. Equal rights. Shoes no one else has. But I'd trade all that in for the perfect guy. (Don't tell me there's something wrong with that. I don't know of a single person who doesn't spend most of her time thinking about love.) Anyway, ever since I could think, I have been imagining and reimagining the exact sort of boy I want to love and who would love me back. Basically, I imagine someone who has all the good attributes of the male species and whose bad ones wouldn't ruin my life. — Sarah Miller

couldn't be more Scottish if it was painted blue and smelled of burning peat and your ginger sister. — Christopher Moore

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. — Joseph Campbell

I never met Sam Raimi in my whole life. — Jane Levy

What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens. — Keri Smith

But "knowing the truth" does not come with redemption as a guarantee, nor does a feeling of redemption guarantee an end to a cycle of wrongdoing. Some would even say it is key to maintaining it, insofar as it can work as a reset button - a purge that cleans the slate, without any guarantee of change at the root. Placing all one's eggs in "the logic of exposure," as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has put it (in Touching Feeling), may also simply further the logic of paranoia. "Paranoia places its faith in exposure," Sedgwick observes - which is to say that the exposure of a disturbing fact or situation does not necessarily alter it, but in fact may further the circular conviction that one can never be paranoid enough. — Maggie Nelson

His presence soon restored confidence. — Ulysses S. Grant

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"? — Gary Saul Morson

She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her. — Sarah J. Maas