3 Quotes About My Name Is Asher Lev

In the midst of a stressful, hectic day it can be difficult to remember your purpose and center your mind to think positively. Fortunately, there are many quotes about being positive and staying focused to remind us of why we’re here. Here are a few of our favorites: "Be the change you want to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." – Buddha "One thought can change your life." – Buddha "Happiness doesn’t depend on circumstances, it depends upon your attitude." – Dale Carnegie "One thought can change your whole day." – Ingrid Newkirk "You need great strength only once in a lifetime. The rest of the time you can get by with little or no effort." – Mahatma Gandhi "Joy is a good medicine for sick beings." – Lao Tzu "I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you." – Paulo Coelho "There comes a time when silence is not an option." – Suze Orman "A man’s got to know his limitations Read more

By insisting on knowing them too well, you learn to fit yourself into them." – James Joyce "I believe that every morning is the dawn of another day full of possibilities. I believe that this new day will bring with it new opportunities. I believe that this day will also bring me closer to my dreams and goals.

I believe that today I will learn new things and that today I will laugh at myself and others with love and respect. And above all else, I believe that nothing is impossible if only I try my best every single day of my life." - Barack Obama "Life adores those who dare to live it fully." - Unknown "It’s not what you take; it’s what you give back. It‘s not what you make; it’s what makes you happy doing it.

It’s not how many people know you; it’s how many people love you. It’s not how much money you have; it’s how much money you spend on others. It’s not where you live; it’s how valuable you are to those around you.

You must find something valuable to give to people if they are valuable in your life… When someone loves themselves

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Something that is yours forever is never precious Chaim Potok
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Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man? Chaim Potok
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Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. Chaim Potok
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I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. Chaim Potok
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For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting–an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment. Chaim Potok
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... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. Chaim Potok
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Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. Chaim Potok
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It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly. Chaim Potok
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Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way. Chaim Potok
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It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth. Chaim Potok
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How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep. Chaim Potok
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Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. Chaim Potok
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An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity. Chaim Potok
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An artist is a person first. Chaim Potok
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> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious. Chaim Potok
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I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city. Chaim Potok