Kiever Synagogue Quotes & Sayings

People who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life, - simply a confession of failure. — Oscar Wilde

When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do. — Barbara Coloroso

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me. — B.B. King

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself. — Albert Camus

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life. — Ken Robinson

Know the history of the great ancestors. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not God who is too busy to hear us, it is we who are too busy to hear God. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. — Orhan Pamuk

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. — Naomi Klein

The perfect teaching of Buddha Is not accomplished through mere study. Dharma without meditation Is like people who die of thirst While being helplessly carried away By a great river. Dharma without meditation Is like a person who, having supplied Many beings with food and drink, Starves to death himself. — Khamtrul Rinpoche III

A theory is a battlefield in your head. — Haruki Murakami

It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are. — David Foster Wallace