Yochai Weiss Quotes

#1. The hope of Elevation has to remain something random, impossible to see properly, given not to those who earn it but to those with no discernible right to it. Resentment, fear, loathing, and a tiny, flickering light of hope always just out of reach, that is Hell, yes?

Simon Kurt Unsworth

#2. If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.

Miranda July

#3. Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

Roderick L. Evans

#4. I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

Michael Mayer

#5. Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#6. And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.

Christina Baker Kline

#7. One who has been stung by a spider should not go out and kill bees.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. This is the great Secret of life.

Michael Beckwith

#9. Oh! then repeat the truth that never tires; No God is like the God my soul desires; He at whose voice heaven trembles, even He, Great as He is, knows how to stoop to me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

Howard G. Hendricks

#11. So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.

Rachel Cusk

#12. I've always felt that copious use of the word 'something' allows anyone to solve any problem, even insoluble ones.

Joao Magueijo

#13. Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

James Surowiecki

#14. The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

Walt Kelly