Levi ben Gershon
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
You become what you think about.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Hunker down.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Let's roll.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Our love is here to stay.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Love is perfect kindness
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
I'm going to take a bath.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
He who hesitates is lost !
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
You talkin to me ?
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Show me the money !