"Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us."

-- Isak Dinesen

#Believe Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We shouldn't ignore any guidance that comes from the mind - we should listen to our minds AND balance mental messages with intuitive messages. We need both to navigate our way through life.”
“You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.”
“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path”

Source : Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.”
“The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.”
“When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.”
“The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.”
“Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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