Mendel Menachem Quotes & Sayings

When Elizabeth is old enough to ask questions, I'll tell her that her father...my husband, Lord Baldevar, is a good man, one she should be proud to call Father. — Trisha Baker

Since Chuck's a sporting guy, I think it's only fair that I keep score of his conversation. — David Levithan

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there. — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

If you are you because you are you, and I am I because I am I, then you are you and I am I.
If you are you because I am I, and I am I because you are you, then you and I are not. — Menachem Mendel

One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do! — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Everyone who's born has come from the sea. Your mother's womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they're born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean - walking on the land. — Timothy Findley

The ego's unconscious core feeling of "not enough" causes it to react to
someone else's success as if that success had taken something away from
"me." It doesn't know that your resentment of another person's success
curtails your own chances of success. In order to attract success, you need to
welcome it wherever you see it. — Tolle, Eckhart

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Peace without truth is a false peace. — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

There is nothing so whole as a broken heart. — Menachem Mendel

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time. — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

I lay in his arms and I understood. I am two women and I love two men. Elise will always love Kit and Alice loves Daniel. This was not the life or the love I had expected but it was love all the same. — Natasha Solomons

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work. — Jane Badler

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God. — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

God dwells where we let God in. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

God is only where you let Him in — Menachem Mendel

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart. — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship! — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson