Salanter Quotes

#1. Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

Yisroel Salanter

#2. It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

Donald Johanson

#3. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.

Amy Zhang

#4. Life is a worthwhile adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

Susanna Moore

#6. Promote yourself, but do not demote another.

Yisroel Salanter

#7. I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.

Spencer Pratt

#8. Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

Gloria Steinem

#9. To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

Louis L'Amour

#10. Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.

Yisroel Salanter

#11. There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.

Yisroel Salanter

#12. There is no greater illness than discouragement!

Yisroel Salanter

#13. To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

Yisroel Salanter

#14. Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Yisroel Salanter

#15. We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that.

Tom Ford

#16. The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

Peter Beard

#17. Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

Yisroel Salanter

#18. So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about.

Ruben Ostlund