Ruderman Synagogue Quotes & Sayings

I never wanted to come off as self-important. — John Cusack

The relatively new field of "adolescent medicine" focuses not only on the traditional medical model of diagnosis and treatment, but, perhaps more than any other subspecialty of medicine, on education and prevention. — Madeline Levine

Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else? — Stephen Baxter

There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple. — Anzia Yezierska

I already told you it's over, he snaps. What else do you want? A maldito corpse? You women never know how to leave things alone. You never know how to let go. — Junot Diaz

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance ... We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts ... — Napoleon Hill

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him. — John Spence

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether. — Mason Cooley

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. — Swami Vivekananda

BE CALM! And listen to the voices in your head. They promise the next one will be a bestseller. — Dawna Raver

Mistakes make us human; don't torture yourself over a choice you made four years ago. If you think you were wrong, make a plan to change what you can. Action is good. Choices are good. But guilt on its own never fixed anyone's problem. — Darcy Coates

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold

She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home. — Colm Toibin

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is. — John C. Maxwell