"As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Destiny Quotes #Done Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.”
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
“I think people are universal”
“Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press
“Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.”
“There is no Apocalypse.”
“It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.”

Source : Steve Lopez (2008). “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music”, Putnam Adult
“Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.”

Source : Samson Raphael Hirsch, Daniel Haberman (2008). “חמשה חומשי תורה: מתורגם ומבואר מאת שמשון בן רפאל הירש ; תורגם לאנגלית ע"י דניאל הברמן”, p.125, Feldheim Publishers

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