Rabbi Jalni Quotes

#1. First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

P.D. James

#2. Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Bob Dylan

#3. Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

Sakyong Mipham

#4. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. The bull's-eyes end up in museums and on library shelves, not the misses. Which, when you think about it, is a shame. It feeds the myth that geniuses get it right the first time, that they don't make mistakes, when, in fact, they make more mistakes than the rest of us.

Eric Weiner

#6. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

Dale Carnegie

#8. The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.

Rob Thomas

#9. I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.

Alejandro Zambra