Quotes
Authors
Chaim Potok

"I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life."

Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

Chaim Potok

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Mar 26, 2015
“Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.”
“I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!”
“These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in each moment is so well taken care of - and always has been.”
“Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.”

Source : Allison Pearson (2010). “I Don't Know How She Does It”, p.165, Random House
“You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.”
“No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You donâ€™t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courageâ€”courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.”
“It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.”

Source : Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

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