Mikeska Barbeque Quotes & Sayings

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind — Ziggy Marley

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book! — Orson Welles

Amitai shook his head, almost smiling, because here he was, feeling for the first time that the tragedy of European Jewry did belong to him. Before today, his lack of personal connection to the Holocaust had made it a distant history, no more relevant to him than any other. But Natalie, the locket, the painting, the Hall of Names, taking responsibility for Komlos in the Pages of Testimony, these had brought him to he realization that, merely by virtue of being a Jew, even a Jew from another place and time, it was his history, too. Not personally, but collectively. It belonged to him, as he belonged to all those Jews rising up into the infinite ceiling in the Hall of Names. He and Natalie were in the same place, but they had come from different directions. — Ayelet Waldman

An effort made for the happiness of other lifts us above. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand). — Dada Bhagwan

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact. — Gilbert K. Chesterton