In every cultural background there are sayings that we are familiar with.Some are rarer than others. Some, we grew up with and are as familiar as your mother's voice calling on the phone, at the most inconvenient time.In the following, I have put together some of both kinds. Running down the actual authors are often a chore and often a surprise. Most of the following have been translated from the Hebrew and in some cases Yiddish.How many of your background can you present to us? Sometimes the authors of the following are surprising.

First we make our choices, then our choices make us. -- Ann Frank

If you don't believe in miracles, you're not a realist. -- David Ben Gurion

There is no such thing as a small act, there are only small people.-- Unknown

A person should be willing to give up all his tomorrows for one today, so that he doesn't wind up wasting all his todays on one tomorrow. A. Nony Mous

There are two ways to live. You can live as if nothing is a miracle. You can live as if everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein

When we are no longer able to change a siruation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -- Viktor Frankl

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-- Albert Einstein

Pain is a reality, sufferingis a choice.
-- Asher Resnik-

Who is a wise person? It is the one who foresees the consequences. -- The Talmud

It is not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much you accomplish with what you have.
-- Samson Raphael Hirsch

Our biggest fear in life is whether or not we are living up to our potential. -- Ephriam Shore