"This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time."

-- A. J. Jacobs

#Sanctuary Quotes #Volume Quotes #Should Quotes

“The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.”
“If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if we persisted in perpetuity. And yet, if you told me I had X number of days left to live, I would lobby for X plus one.”
“I could look in everyone's faces and see them reflecting on how much time has passed and all the things we went through.”
“If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.”
“We go out and work hard. We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says 'Emotionally, physically, mentally - come to the field prepared.' Because if you don't bring that to the field, you're going to get beat.”
“At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.”
“Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.”

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