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Rabbi Ben-Tzion Spitz is the former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay. He is the author of over a dozen books on Torah themes, including a Biblical Fiction series. He is the publisher of a website dedicated to the exploration of classic Jewish texts, as well as TweetYomi, which publishes daily Torah tweets. Ben-Tzion is a graduate of Yeshiva University and received his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University.
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Advice is like snow—the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.— Christian Morgenstern
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.— Proverb (widely attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)
Faith is not certainty. It is the courage to live with uncertainty.— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Joy in Judaism is not hedonic; it is redemptive, cathartic, and spiritual.— Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
I don’t believe in ghosts. But I’m afraid of them.— Edith Wharton
Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come. -Rebecca Ruter Springer
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe. -Mark Twain
Those who are skilled in producing surprises Are as infinitely varied as heaven and earth, And as inexhaustible as the great rivers. -Sun Tzu
Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant. -Simon T. Bailey
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. -Lawrence G. Lovasik
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. -Stefan Zweig
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine. -Richard Cecil
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me. -Carl Jung
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. -Audrey Hepburn
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. -Confucius
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. -Willie Nelson
Heaven means to be one with God -Confucius
It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment. -Thomas Kempis
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. -Jean De La Bruyere
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. -Mary Schmich
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. -Charles Caleb Colton
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know. -Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. -Carl Zwanzig
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. -Plato
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. -Socrates
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. -Edmund Burke
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. -Gustav Mahler
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. -Denis Leary
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. -Victor Hugo
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. -John Henrik Clarke
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. -Brian Tracy
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -Mark Twain
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. -Homer, The Odyssey
An individual can make a difference, but a team can make a miracle. -Doug Pederson
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. -Francois Fenelon
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. -Blaise Pascal
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. -Henry David Thoreau
An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. -Elbert Hubbard
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? -George Eliot
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. -Sholom Aleichem
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. -E. M. Cioran
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb Sun and Moon
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. -Thomas Jefferson
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. -James Freeman Clarke
To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself. -Herbert A. Otto
“Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
He who knows he has enough is rich. -Lao-Tzu
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -Albert Einstein
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. -Phillips Brooks
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. -Henry Ward Beecher
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. -Henry Ward Beecher
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. -R. Turnbull
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. -Mark Twain
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him. -Brother Lawrence
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought. -Giambattista Basile
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. -Jean de La Fontaine
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. -William Shakespeare
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words. -Edwin H. Stuart
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept / Were toiling upward in the night. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them. -Harold Sherman
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. -Jean Jacques Rousseau
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. -Anthony Brandt
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. -William Hazlitt
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. -John Donne
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. -Christopher Marlowe
At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation. -Max L. Lucado
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. -Thomas Carlyle
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. -Angelina Grimke
Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. -Chinese Proverb
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. -William Pitt The Elder Chatham
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion. -Herbert Spencer
Love is the affinity that links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. -William Blake
"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them."-Napoleon Bonaparte
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. -Alan Redpath
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. -Eileen Caddy
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. -Johann von Goethe
We are never like angels till our passion dies. -Sir John Denham
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri Frederic Amiel
In every phenomenon, the beginning remains always the most notable moment. -Thomas Carlyle
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it. -W. S. Gilbert
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. -Marcus Aurelius
The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way. Robert A. Heinlein
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. -Thomas Carlyle
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health. -George Herbert
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. -Theodore Roosevelt
Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. -Victor Kiam
Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. -Danish proverb
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. -Charles Caleb Colton
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many. -Plato
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. -Andrew Jackson
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. -Blaise Pascal
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. -Thomas Carlyle
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. -Francois de la Rochefoucauld
