The Jewish Wisdom Database

The wise man says: I will eat to live, and the fool says: I will live to eat.

Faith is not a series of theorems but a way of life.

Who is not happy in his lot is deemed a wretch.

Happiness is the one good thing that all long for.

If there is one thing superior to life, it is health.

A healthy man instinctively loves life.

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life!

Three things are best beloved by a man: homeland, children, and life.

Without hope, all activity will come to a standstill and life be ended.

The man who has stopped hoping has stopped living.

It is much harder to live a life of freedom and self-rule than to be ruled by others.

Gladness of the heart is the life of man, and his joyfulness lengthens his days.

Who lives happily does his Creator's will.

Land is the source of life and creation, of culture and true independence.

The Land of Israel is called life.

Choose life!

Man who is merely a breath, whose life fades like a passing shadow.

All men have the one entrance into life and the one exit.

Your own life must be considered before your friend's.

A long life, a short life - - -what matters it? What is important is that it be a life of beauty.

Life is stronger than any destruction of it.

When a life is at stake, one must not follow the majority.

Know whence you came and whither you go!

Memory sustains man in the world of life.

Woe to him that lives as a pauper to die rich!