On this page you will find some quotes worth remembering. Take a quiet moment and reflect upon the words written in this quiet space
"Therefore you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at your wrist as a sign and let them be a pendant on your forehead. Write them on the dooposts of your houses and on your gates."
- Deuteronomy 6:5
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It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
--Mother Teresa
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If you're going through hell, keep going.
--Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author
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The privilege of a lifetime is being yourself
- Joseph Campbell
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and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand
times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear
of punishment.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
until his life is over. Why should you and I?
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784
Chinese proverb
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Harsh words, demands and ultimatums -- these shake the very foundations of a marriage and a home, tearing its walls apart until each one stands alone.
Gentle words, understanding words, listening words -- this is the trunk from which a marriage grows, the foundation upon which a home stands.
A home cannot be repaired unless its foundation is firm. Once a couple learns to speak as friends, their marriage can endure everything, forever.
From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Chanukah was a victory of few over many. Each Maccabee was a hero, essential to the victory. One could think that, in those days, when the population of the world was so much smaller, a single individual would have more power to change the world. In fact, just the opposite is true. Technology and information has put enormous power in the hands of whoever wants it. Just over fifty years ago, one madman came to the verge of destroying the world. His failure to develop atomic weapons on time is still inexplicable -- it can only be attributed to the great mercies of the One Above who takes care of His world and promised it would always stand. Today we have seen that not even an army is needed, nor warheads or missiles -- but only an obsessive will to destroy. Such is the power of darkness. A thousand times over is the power of light, of any one of us to transform the entire world to good. A small child kissing the mezuzah on the door of her house, an act of kindness asking nothing in return, a sacrifice of convenience to benefit another -- each of these things are as bursts of light in the nighttime sky. True, they make less noise. Rarely are they reported in the daily news. But while darkness passes as the shadows of clouds on a windy day, this light endures, accumulating until it leaves no room for evil to remain.
Stop all the clocks, cut of the telephone
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone
Silence the pianos and with a muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves
He was my North, my South, my East and West
My workingweek and my Sundayrest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood
For nothing now can ever come to any good
- W.H. Auden
