"There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already."

-- Shlomo Carlebach

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“Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.”
“As for America and the rest of European world, I want to live in a nation that reflects my traditions and values, and I do not want my people to become a minority in the nations my own forefathers built. Interestingly, that is same goal that most Israelis and most Jews who support Israel endorse for the Jewish state.”
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”

Source : Thomas Mann (1934). “Joseph and His Brothers”, New York : A.A. Knopf
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.”
“The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality-who will press toward his object while death is impending over him-who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 239, 1895.
“When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.”
“Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.”

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