Occupation: Rabbi Birth: 1935
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human..
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul ….
Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others..
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our ….
Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully eno….
We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived..
Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children..
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so….
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance..
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another..
Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggl….
None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change ….
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish..
Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that..
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party..
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can..
Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving….
The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happi….
People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remem….
The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in..
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world..