"The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details."

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Source : Sholem Asch (1941). “What I Believe”

Sholem Asch

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“Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as if they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them -- all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration.”
“If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.”
“Grace grows best in winter.”
“Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.”
“I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.”
“I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.”
“Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal patterns of cellular organization and growth.”
“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.”

Source : Lena Horne, Richard Schickel (1966). “Lena”

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