While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.
If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.
Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.
The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.
Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.
Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth.
Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.
Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.
Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.
If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.
The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.
Arbitration is justice blended with charity.
All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.
If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you’re worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.
Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.
It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child.