Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:34]
For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:07]
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:26]
If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.' [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose." [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome. [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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