The Jewish Wisdom Database

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.

Days are scrolls, you may write on them what you wish.

Even the costliest clock can show no more than sixty minutes to the hour.

Lord, let me know my end, and what the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am!

What man can live and never behold death?

Better an easy death than a hard life.

There is one moral duty which your moralists underrate criminally- - - the duty to enjoy the world which God created.

Eat that you may live!