"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."

-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Book Quotes #Soul Quotes #Letters Quotes

“I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.”
“My life started being awesome five years ago.”

Source : "Connie Britton Is a Late Bloomer" by Susan Dominus, www.nytimes.com. February 13, 2013.
“We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.”
“The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press
“You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.”

Source : "Tactical Reflections" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org.
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist”
“Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

Source : Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.355, Hackett Publishing
“I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.”

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