Pirkei Avot Community Quotes & Sayings

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. — Daniel Webster

You said that life's just like skating; I just need to kick forward and take a chance, push off the ground and follow through. And when everything works out, I'll coast. — Jay McLean

People can be threatened by someone with ambition, no matter how low the stakes or how small the rewards. And while lots of people will plant a smile on their face and say they're pleased, behind closed doors the whispers form a kind of toxic cloud of gas that goes out on the wind and finds you eventually. — Julia Kent

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst

Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing! — Utpal Vaishnav

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history. — Penelope Keith

I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing. — Drew Goddard

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities. — Sri Aurobindo

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up to the sky, because everything we're made of, even the hemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies. — Robyn Schneider