Rashi Quotes

#1. Life was complicated enough without borrowing trouble.

Raine Miller

#2. Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

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#3. Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

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#4. Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

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#5. Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

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#6. A trap closed around my heart, and in that moment, I was helpless. Whether she loved me for my money or myself, whether she loved me at all, whether her heart was even available for the winning ... none of it mattered. I was smitten to the core.

Julianne Donaldson

#7. God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

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#8. I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.

Alicia Keys

#9. It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.

Susan Hill

#10. Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

Dale Carnegie

#11. A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.

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#12. The world exists for the sake of kindness.

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#13. You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Matthew Broderick

#14. A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

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#16. Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to be quiet.

Anne Rice

#17. The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

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#18. Receive all with simplicity that happens to you

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#19. Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

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#20. The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

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#21. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

#22. Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.

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#23. Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.

Anne Sexton

#24. Teachers learn from their students' discussions

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