Love Quotes You Will Love
Here are some quotes on Love, posted once before
I love these quotes. I loved compiling them. I know you will love them too
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich
“The salvation of man is through love and in love.” – Dr.Viktor Frankl
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” — Erich Segal
“Fall in love and you can fall out of love.
Create love and it will last forever.” – Rabbi Tzvi Freeman“Love is a ladder; it allows us to climb out of ourselves”. – Noah benShea
“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” – Anais Nin
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein
“Any love that is dependent on something — when the thing ceases, the love also ceases. But a love that is not dependent on any thing never ceases…” – Ethics of the Fathers, 5:16
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides” – David Viscott
“You don’t truly love someone until you can take what they need to give you.” – David Suissa
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Theodor Seuss Geisel
“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” – Bernard Meltzer
“Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde
“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.” – Bill Russell
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.” – Erich Fromm
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.” – Katherine Hepburn
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.” – John Galsworthy
“I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.” – Judy Garland
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“I am to my beloved, and my beloved is to me” – Song of Songs 6:3
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“To love another person is to see the face of G-d.” – Victor Hugo
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.” – Marc Chagall
“Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.” – Duke Ellington
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” – Benjamin Franklin
“True love stories never have endings” – Richard Bach
“So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.” – Robert Browning
For thoughts on love for those that have it and those still searching, not just quotes, read all the past writings on love click here
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Who’s Got Talent?
You Do!
Kobe Bryant said after his last game upon retiring from Basketball
“I was blessed with a lot of talent and I worked like I had none”
Each of us was/is blessed “with a lot of talent”, although we don’t necessarily see some of them as talents. We just accept them. We also have, perhaps hidden deeper, untapped, and/or unrecognized talents.
Each of us was given, what we were given, from every single detail of your appearance, to what we normally call talents. All were given to you to make you the player you are meant to be, on the team called Humanity.
The combination of all that’s given to you, makes you a talent. All given to you as a package, so as to make you the unique person you are and are meant to be. It’s given to you so that you may fulfill your unique and needed role on Team Humanity. No one ever before has your unique talent. Only you possess that unique talent and therefore only you can fulfill that role. You are not just matter, you Matter!
Of course, within your package there might be a very outstanding talent recognized by many. Since each of our uniqueness is meant to be used to do a good for one or many, that one gets you noticed by many, so that you can do a good for many.
Recognize and acknowledge your “talent” and then “work as though you had none”, so as to constantly seek to improve what you have. Recognize that your talent is a gift given to you so that you may bring your gift to the party of life. Recognize your “talent” and wonder how it can be used for the good, which is why it was given to you in the first place.
Recognize that all others also have their talents. When we all use our talents, we can have the world we all wish for. Life is not like an individual sport, it is like a team sport
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov
“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it will be forward, backwards, or sideways.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“When I stand before G-d at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
When you recognize that you are a talent, when you use your talent as it’s meant to be used, you will also be talented at being happy 😊
Use Your Talent To
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When You’re Smiling…….*
Feeling depressed, anxious, angry, lonely, low energy, …..? Well now there is and there always has been a prescription to cure all of that. It may not cure the root cause, but it will change your mindset, which will allow you to move forward. It is called Smiling and Laughing.
Smiling and Laughing are the best medicines to keep you going. It begins with and/or creates a positive attitude. It also creates several healthy physiological responses. An additional benefit, is that when you smile and laugh, you make others smile and laugh, which helps others.
Side effects may include: more friends, reversal of frown wrinkles, a busier social calendar, a need to get your teeth whitened, a need to buy more clothes…….
Smiling and laughing includes the ability to laugh at yourself and the circumstances you are in, self-imposed or otherwise.
Whenever you are feeling any of the symptoms described above, try the following: laugh at something about yourself, watch or listen to a comedy or comedian, even forcing a Smile helps
So Now Sing Along With Me
When you’re smilin’, when you’re smilin’The whole world smiles with youWhen you’re laughin’, when you’re laughin’The sun comes shinin’ through
Much has been discussed and written about the Jewish sense of humor. It is often noted that there have been so many Jewish comedians over the years, long before Jerry Seinfeld. People always wonder how is it that after thousands of years of persecution, expulsions, pogroms, the Holocaust, etc., that Jews can still laugh and be funny. The Jewish sense of humor is both self and situationally deprecating. The ability to laugh is both a survival mechanism and less discussed, it is a testament to our faith that teaches us to have faith that things will get better. Smile and it will.
“Laughter prevents hardening of the attitudes.” – Dunc Muncy
“Smile – it’s the second best thing you can do with your lips.” – Don Ward
“It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 47 muscles to frown. Conserve energy.” – unknown
“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” – Andy Rooney
“As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused.” – Unknown
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Yakov Smirnoff
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” – Phyllis Diller
Watch this video and Smile
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I hope this post put a Smile on your face and I’ll be Smiling with you
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*A popular song written by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin in 1928
Make 2023 A Year Of Good
As we begin another new year, another new, another beginning, we look forward to all that we wish for. The good that we wish for ourselves, is the good that we wish for others and vice-versa.
For this New Year, let’s do more than just wish. Let’s make this a “Happy New Year”, a year of good. Let’s make this the year where our deeds make our wishes reality. A year where we tap into “all of our possibilities” and potential to become the human we were destined and created to be. A year where we each do our unique part to make our world a better one. A year where we each “Shine A Little Light”! No matter what the circumstances are. We can get there by constantly striving to make all of our actions directed to a purpose higher than just ourselves. All that we need and the world we all wish for is in our hands.
Many years ago there was this great old wise man, a seer, who was coming to a town to speak. His reputation preceded him, so that many people waited with great anticipation for his arrival and then went to hear him speak. Among them, was this one young and skeptical man, who went simply to challenge the wise man. After the wise man spoke, there was a Q&A. When it was the young mans turn, he put out his cupped hands and asked the wise man what was in his hands. The wise man replied, “two little birds”, which was correct. The young man was impressed, but he was still skeptical, so he asked whether they were dead or alive. The wise man knew that if he replied, “they’re dead”, the young man would open his hands and the birds would fly away. If he replied “they’re alive”, the young man would crush the birds in his hands. The wise man’s reply was simply
“The Answer Is All In Your Hands.”
“Each person must see himself as though the entire world were held in balance and any deed he may do could tip the scales.” – Maimonides
May 2023 be your best year ever…so far!!
Healthy and Happy 2023
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Happy Independence Day 2022
The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. It said;
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
The founding of America was then, a very novel idea in building a nation based on individual rights and freedom. A nation founded on the idea that man is inherently (soul) good and given freedom could/would eventually live up to that good. A nation founded on the belief that all are created in the image of G-d. That we are all children of G-d. That given freedom, we could and would eventually have a country that lives up to and recognizes these “self-evident truths”.
Those who got freedom back then, were grateful. Yet it was not something that they were familiar with and had no real experience with. They were an imperfect people given the freedom and opportunity, based on the founding principles, to grow and become a more “perfect union”. So began the journey in learning how to use their new freedom.
We were all created with free will. The USA was created to be a nation that gave us the opportunity to express our free will. With the freedom of free will, we can choose to elevate ourselves and become the person we were created to be. To be the unique person, with a unique purpose, and mission for which we were each created. A mission that contributes to the benefit of all. A person who follows
“Love your fellow as yourself” (Leviticus 19;18).
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me. And if I am only for myself, of what good am I.” – Hillel, Ethics of fathers 1:14
Without these rights and freedom we could not pursue our dreams and our individual purpose. When we each use that freedom to be who we are meant to be, to fulfill our unique purpose, America will be all that it’s meant to be and what it was founded for. Without the freedom to fulfill our individual purpose, we will never get to a nation fully defined by it’s founding principles.
What could be more gratifying for each of us to know that we chose, because we could, to use that freedom to reach our ultimate potential as human beings. To know that it came from you and not imposed on you. To look around us and see that all are enjoying “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” To be truly United. It may take longer than we would like, but freedom is the only way to get there.
If there are faults in America, it is not the fault of America. We are all still imperfect people.
A young child asks his parents on a long trip, “Are we there yet?”. The parent answers “no, not yet”. On our journey, we must constantly ask ourselves, “Am I there yet?”. Each of us is a work in process that can lead to progress. The closer you get, the closer we will be to the ideals that America was founded on.
In the 246 years of our independence, we have made much progress, and accomplished much good. So let’s celebrate our freedom, how far we’ve come, and keep going forward. Keep going forward until the answer becomes, “yes, I am there” and therefore “yes, we are there”. Without freedom we will never get there!
One of the many of America’s accomplishments is very personal for me. If it wasn’t for America, my Parents (OBM), would not have been Holocaust Survivors,who then came to America, and therefore I would not be
To have the freedom to pursue and become our true selves is indeed something to be thankful for.
Our liberty should be celebrated everyday by using it for the good of all.
May we cherish, be grateful for, and protect those freedoms for many, many more years.
May we use our freedom to fulfill our greatest human potential.
HAPPY 4th of July
G-d Bless America
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