"There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity."

-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

#Wise Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Humble Quotes

“What can I say? Librarians rule.”
“I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.”
“For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.”
“I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.”
“There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.139, Vintage
“Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage â€“ rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.”

Source : Judy Chicago (2007). “The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation”, Merrell Pub Limited
“Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.”
“Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.”

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