"Never question where love comes from.

Leonard Cohen's Advice To Jennifer Warnes About Love
Jennifer Warnes: "I phoned Leonard on the day that my mother – who in many ways was my ‘significant other’ – died. ‘Was that somehow strange, devoting one’s life to one’s mother?’ I asked. His response was impeccable:"
"Never question where love comes from. We have no control over these things. From a stranger, a mother, a dog, or that perfect mate, it comes from wherever it comes. You were lucky, in fact – everyone hopes to find love in the place that you found it."
Source: "Leonard Cohen – as remembered by Jennifer Warnes" by Marcus Webb (Slow Journalism: 7 November 2016) https://goo.gl/nvzm3j

Great comment on a FB group that debated gittin

Alright. That's enough for today. We are not going to get anywhere. I think frum klal yisrael needs to split into two groups - Charedi and Modern. And they should have nothing to do with each other. They should stop writing articles about each other. Just stay apart. Like a divorce. Because they are just too different at this point. Each fills itself with outrage about the other; although I must say that the MO/lefties tend to get more outraged and spend more of their time talking about the Charedim than the Charedim talk about them. There's very little sharing of values anymore. Are the MO going to withhold the get?

you've gotta to decide

"You had to hold your nerve, but then you do in life. You know. You get to all sorts of occasions that throw you and you've gotta to decide I'm going under or I'm going up."

Paul McCartney

don't wait

It sort of made me feel like you have to do that thing you want to do you can't wait.

Suzzana Hoff on John Lennon's death

Swing

Don't change your swing it got you into the big leagues. Change where you stand in the batter's box.
Pete Rose

dogs

I see many dogs on my mail route. I'll bet there's not one type of mutt or mongrel I haven't run across. If you ask me, they have no business living amongst us. Vile, USELESS BEASTS . . .

c'neged culam

I hear often in the frum world that Torah study is the greatest mitzvah, that even one word of it equals all the other mitzvos, and sometimes it seems that it's the only mitzvah that the charedi yeshiva world cares about. One hears phrases like "learning isn't just another mitzvah" a phrase that seems degrading to mitzvos to me. I find it also demotivating because I as a woman don't have the chiyuv of Torah study in the way that they mean. You can tell me that my support of his study 'counts' as study but it doesn't feel like study. I'm still not experiencing it. I'm happy to experience mitzvos but this becomes problematic when mitzvos are degraded. Also, my husband as a baal habayis has limited time for study. Even if we do all that we can to squeeze out more time, study is a fraction of the day. Most of our lives are mitzvos but the mitzvos seem to be looked at as nuisances. Yet Shlomo says at the end of Koheles that "the sum of the matter is to fear God and keep His commandments." He doesn't say that the sum of the matter is to study Gemara. In trying to rebuild yeshivos and scholarship after the Shoah, have we as a community gone too far and gotten off track? 

As a part II to this question (maybe it's an entirely separate question) I'm 100% sure that one or all of the panelists are going to reference the Mishnah "Talmud Torah c'neged culam" as proof that the current sentiment is correct. Yet, it doesn't seem so simple to me. Since when does c'neged mean equal?  The common translation of ezer cnegdo is helpmate with cnegdo meaning mate as in mated to. This fits in well with the Talmudic idea that learning is great because it leads to doing. It is mated, connected to doing. Moreover, we have several similar statements of Chazal regarding things being cneged such as Eretz Yisroel is cneged culam, tzitzis is cneged culam, Shabbos is cneged culam. Even lashon hara is cneged culam. They can't all be greater than each other. That's logically impossible. Rather, they all are mitzvos or aveiros that have tentacles in all other mitzvos, they influence all the other ones.