18 Quotes & Sayings By Naama Yehuda

Na'ama Yehuda was born in Jerusalem in 1972. She studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned a master's degree from Tel Aviv University. In 2000, she received a master's degree from the University of Michigan. In 2004, she published her first book, The Other Mother: A Novel of State, which tells the story of a group of Israeli women who have become the other mother to the settlers in the West Bank Read more

In 2005, she published her second novel, The Booksellers of Kabul: A Novel of Love and War in Afghanistan. She has since published a collection of short stories, Evening on a Garden Street (2009), and a collection of essays on Israel and Palestine (2011). Her fifth novel, The Third Wife (2014), is set in Jerusalem and tells the story of two women who both want to be mothers to their children.

If not in the moment, where do you propose to...
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If not in the moment, where do you propose to live? Naama Yehuda
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Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking. Naama Yehuda
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An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from. Naama Yehuda
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Naama Yehuda ‏@NaamaYehuda · 42s42 seconds ago Sometimes when the path is obscured all we can do is find the best way through the current moment and hope things will clear up ahead. Naama Yehuda
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You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light. Naama Yehuda
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When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow. Naama Yehuda
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Be happy for things that work. Naama Yehuda
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Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination. Naama Yehuda
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For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island. Naama Yehuda
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However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could. Naama Yehuda
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Today, make time to play. Naama Yehuda
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Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in. Naama Yehuda
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It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face. Naama Yehuda
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No matter how small you are or feel or think you are—live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have! Naama Yehuda
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The only things that last are love and hate. The only one that matters is love: Choose love. Hate erodes. Love nourishes.. Naama Yehuda
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I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths just as true but somehow less favorable to telling. Naama Yehuda
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Death is just another path to take, as real as morning. Naama Yehuda