“For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.”Isaac Bashevis Singer (Polish-born American writer 1904-1991)
“For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.”
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.”
“Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.”
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair”
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
“This year's commemorative events have enabled us to demonstrate to those who lived through the war at home and abroad that the sacrifices their generation made and the hardships they endured are still acknowledged, valued and appreciated”
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”
“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.”
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
“After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain”
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few”
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?”
“It's like a big parking lot up there. There are lots of empty places, and you can park in one as long as it doesn't belong to someone else.”
“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”
“One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone”
“The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”