Ovadia Yosef Quotes
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.
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Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.
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Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.
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I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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Falling for you was the scariest thing in the entire world, and losing my heart to you was the most terrifying thing I could imagine. Until I finally realized why I was so afraid. I thought I was going to lose myself in you, when the truth is that with you is where I’ve finally found everything that truly matters.
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True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.
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The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.
