Quotes - April (aprilvoytkokempler) (Reno, NV) Showing 1-16 of 16

#1

“From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor.”
― April Voytko Kempler, The Altered I: Memoir of Joseph Kempler, Holocaust Survivor

tags: holocaust-narrative, holocaust-survivor, memoir

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#2

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

8025 likes

#3

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

2530 likes

#4

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
― elie wiesel

tags: genocide, holocaust, war, witness

539 likes

#5

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5011 likes

#6

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23763 likes

#7

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: procrastination

995 likes

#8

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions

838 likes

#9

“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
― Anne Frank

tags: holocaust, inspirational, judaism

216 likes

#11

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

1298 likes

#12

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

3153 likes

#13

“The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

tags: prayer, revival

25 likes

#14

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

4148 likes

#15

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

1522 likes

#16

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
― George Bernard Shaw

125 likes

#17

“I can't believe my eyes.”
― Marty Feldman

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