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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as read more
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.