Hachnasat Orchim Quotes

#1. On the Brevity of Our Ties
Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.

Kentetsu Takamori

#2. One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

Anais Nin

#3. What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Paulo Coelho

#4. If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Gordon Livingston

#5. To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

George H. Scithers

#6. I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

Elisha Cuthbert

#7. I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

John Keats

#8. Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Anne Lamott

#9. Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Henry Reed

#10. We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know.

Anne Rice

#11. Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch
Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch
Fishes pray for them to fly far away
Inland lakes toast to the Pelican's day

Munia Khan

#12. Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C.S. Lewis

#13. If you take a look around this great big world, every beautiful thing that you see God created.

Heather Wolf

#14. I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

Moira Kelly