Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERDo you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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