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It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next…

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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…

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Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,… — Khalil Gibran
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each… — Henry Mitchell
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when… — Phillips Brooks
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be… — Malcolm X
He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others. — Paulo Coelho
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff
It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay… — Jim Harbaugh
He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ...… — Clare Vanderpool
He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to… — Ted Dekker
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a… — Spartacus

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