"Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores."

-- Marisa Silver

#Attention Quotes #Strange Quotes #Folktales Quotes

“For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.”
“First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.”

Source : "Leaping Souls : Rabbi Menachem Mendel And The Spirit Of Kotzk". Book by Chaim Feinberg, 1993.
“Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.”
“...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.84, Vintage
“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.”
“People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.”
“The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all”
“I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.”

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