Lajiahm Quotes & Sayings

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace. — Morihei Ueshiba

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. — Chaim Potok

You see?" she said. "I've been leading you without you knowing it. Of course that's because you're new to the town, and you give yourself up to the guidance of an old citizen."
"I'm not so sure, Miss Adams. It might mean that I don't care where I follow so long as I follow you. — Booth Tarkington

Zafar, the eagle has not landed - the eagle refuses to land actually. I need help. — Zeenat Mahal

Why is this painful journey so indispensable to the acquisition of true wisdom? ... It is as if the mind were a squeamish organ that refused to entertain difficult truths unless encouraged to do so by difficult events. "Happiness is good for the body," Proust tells us, "but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind." These griefs put us through a form of mental gymnastics which we would have avoided in happier times. Indeed, if a genuine priority is the development of our mental capacities, the implication is that we would be better off being unhappy than content, better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza. (Proust writes) A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius who interests us. — Alain De Botton

Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know. — Bryant McGill