Quotes You Will Love On Love
Here are some quotes on Love, once posted before with new additions.
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
“I’ve learned…. That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them” – Andy Rooney
“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
To read all the past writings, more than just quotes, on love click here They are thoughts on love for those that have it and those still searching
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We Need Stitches
Very sadly, the United States of America is now anything but United
We have become torn apart like a big gash that requires stitches to bring us together, and then we can begin healing. I’m writing this in the hopes that all, no matter what side you’re on, will take an honest look at yourself, your side, and become a stitch.
Here is a story (posted here several times before) and some quotes to read, re-read, and digest.
I am again sharing this true story* below in the hope that it will cause some personal reflection for each and everyone of us. That this story will then help bring some stitching and begin to bring us all together.
There were two young brothers ages eight and ten. The younger brother was the taller one. We all know, and men certainly remember that for boys, height is really important. So naturally the older, shorter brother was very jealous of his younger, taller brother.
One day, while playing in the backyard, the older, shorter brother pushed the younger, taller brother into a little ditch. This wasn’t done in order to hurt or knock him down, but rather to make him appear shorter. At which point the older, now looking taller brother gave a “Nah, nah, nehnahna, I’m taller than you!” Their father witnessed this and called over the older brother. The Father told him to bring over a chair and he did. The Father then told him to stand on it. The boy didn’t understand but he complied and then asked why he was standing on a chair, and his father said,
“Whenever you want to be bigger, you raise yourself up, instead of pushing someone else down.”
Some Thoughts to Begin Stitching
To become a stitch starts with recognizing that you may bear some responsibility in creating the gash in the first place
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Man is endowed by nature with two eyes: one to see his neighbors’ virtues, the other to see his own faults.” – Chasidic Proverb
“Interesting, isn’t it, how one can detect a speck on another’s hair, but can’t see flies on his own nose?” — Mendel Moicher Sefarim
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Virginia Woolf
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” – Henry Winkler
In reading this story and the following quotes, avoid the quick natural instinct of ‘yeah, that’s what they do”. Instead, take an honest moment and ask yourself, is that what I and or my side does?
“Eyesight is of no avail if the heart is blind.” – Rabbi Shlomo ben Yehudah
“A man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” – Sir Francis Bacon
“When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.” — Walter Lippmann
“Not caring about contradiction is the same as not caring about the truth.” – Jamie Whyte
“The human mind is capable of rationalizing and modifying morality to meet a person’s needs or desires.” – Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski
“We don’t always see things as they are, we see things as we are” Anais Nin
“When you celebrate the death of your ideological opponents it is worth wondering what your ideology has made of you.” – Rabbi David Wolpe
Until and when we see the other, and not as another, but as a human being, we can’t and won’t heal.
“Love your fellow as yourself” —Leviticus
Be A Stitch
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*The story is attributed to the 5th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch. Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson. He recounted this story of his youth that happened with him and his older brother, Zalman Aron
You Don’t Have To Be Jewish To Enjoy Latkes *
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Latkes (potato pancakes fried in oil) and you don’t have to be Jewish to gain from some of Chanukah’s lessons and miracles.
Perhaps this year, as we all continue to feel the darkness of this the pandemic, these lessons are especially important to contemplate and remember. Doing so may be bring you a little light.
Jews all over the world are now celebrating Chanukah, the celebration of many miracles. From the victory of a small band of men fighting for the religious freedom of the Jewish people against a very large and well equipped army. To one days worth of olive oil used to light the Menorah (candelabra) for rededicating the Temple, which then miraculously lasted for eight days.
Here are some of my favorite lessons that apply to all
The miracle of the victory and of the oil burning for eight days represents light overcoming darkness, both literally and figuratively.
At nighttime, Jews place their lit Menorah in doorways or windows to bring light to the dark street and to all who see it.
“A little light will dispel much darkness.” — Tzeda LaDerech
On the Menorah is a head candle called the Shamash, which is used to light all the other candles. The Shamash lights the other candles without losing any of its own light. Like the Shamash, each of us can bring our light to all whose lives we come into contact with. We all have that power through acts of goodness, kindness, and charity. More than like the Shamash, not only do we keep our light when we share it, we actually shine brighter!
“From one burning candle many candles are lit, yet its own light is not diminished.” – The Sages
Here is another powerful and universal message from Chanukah, the miracle of light.
Of all the special qualities of a pretty and delicious olive, its essence is found in its oil when lit, producing light. In order to get to the olives essence, it must first be crushed to produce the oil.
So too in our lives, we sometimes are, or feel crushed – by pain and suffering, illness, fears, loss, struggle, and disappointment – and just like the olive, it is then that our essence can be revealed. It is in those moments that you may find your essence and with it bring your light to the world.
As we continue to feel as though we are being Covid crushed, we can come out of this having found our essence. Each of us can then bring more of our light to the darkness and dispel it. Not just pandemic darkness but all darkness!
Happy Chanukah
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*Another updated “Oldie But Goodie”
Your Life Is Your Coach*
In the last post “The Spinning Rabbi’s Approach To Life”, I laid out a metaphorical approach that hopefully creates a mindset for taking on all the challenges presented to you knowing that they’re ultimately for your benefit.
Here I wish to present another metaphorical approach. In the hope that one of them inspires you.
Life as Your Coach, or is, or your ultimate personal trainer G-d, will send you tests and struggles (drills and exercises) all designed to help you find the you, you are meant and created to be. What is sent your way may not be what you want, but what your coach knows you need. He knows you and knows your strengths and weaknesses. He will, over time, send you these tests designed to improve upon your strengths and turn your weaknesses into strengths. Viewed this way, allows you to accept that these tests are for your good.
Let’s use the sport of Boxing as a metaphor again to help explain.
A boxing coach will have you do all sorts of drills and exercises, designed for you, to prepare you to enter the ring. He knows you and what specifically it takes to get you ready. He will begin by training you in all the basics and continue to reinforce them. When ready, he will have you spar or fight many different kinds of opponents. Each opponent that you face has a different style and therefore you must be prepared for them. So the training that the coach gives you will be different for each opponent. All of the experiences and all you learn from these opponents, will make you a better boxer and prepare you to go pro. The longer it takes you to learn (that’s up to you), the longer it takes before the coach let’s you go pro.
Could you have gotten there without all that the coach put you through? Would you have chosen to go through the drills on your own?
Try this for an exercise…. Train yourself to think of every challenge as just an opponent trying to defeat you and block you from realizing your dreams and goals. When you see life’s challenges this way, you will see them as necessary steps and lessons along the way, preparing you to realize your dreams and goals, rather than seeing them as walls. When you view each opponent as a necessary opportunity to get stronger, healthier,and better, you won’t be fearful and you might even look forward to them. So remember…Who/whatever enters the ring with you…You are RWA = ready, willing, and able
With this attitude, make a list of the types of opponents/struggles that you have fought so far. Review the tapes (in your head) of those fights. Focus on
1. How you got through to the end of the fight
2. What you could improve on
3. What you learned about yourself
So now, sing along with me, “It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival”, Survivor – from Rocky 3
“In life, it doesn’t matter how hard you hit, it’s how hard you can get hit and still keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa from Rocky 6
“Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.” — Unknown
“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” — Unknown
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*”Oldie But Goodie” updated
The Spinning Rabbi’s Approach To Life
The following is the Spinning Rabbi’s suggested approach to your journey. When you adopt this metaphorical approach you will develop and have a positive attitude. With a positive attitude you will find some good in all that comes your way and become increasingly joyful.
This has been posted here before and now I’m posting it again because it’s always a good reminder.
You Cannot Lower Your Mountain, You Can Elevate Yourself!
Your mountain is the metaphor for your life’s journey. The climb indicates the challenges and struggles. Every challenge, test, or struggle may not be what you want. It is what you need or are needed for, at that moment.
Think of “your mountain” as a series of hill and plateaus. Each hill is the struggle, followed by a plateau where you digest the accomplishment of getting to the top of that hill, and prepare for the next hill.
You were born at the base of your mountain and the human you were destined and created to become is waiting for you at the top of your mountain. At the top of your mountain is not a pot of gold, but a pot for you to deposit all the nuggets of gold, mined from all of your experiences, you collected along the way.
Every step on your climb has a reason. Every person or event is presented to you for a reason. You may not know the reason. You do know, or should come to know, that it is either for the benefit of others, or to further prepare you for your purpose and mission, or both.
You have free will; therefore you have the choice as to how you respond in all situations. With free will, know that there will be times when you may make the wrong choice and take the wrong turn. Be confident that there will be signs along the way directing you back as long as you look for them.
You can adopt this “your mountain” attitude, which will then assist you in fulfilling your potential in everything you do. If you always strive to reach your fullest potential available to you at every moment, you will be training yourself to do that in all that you do. You will then realize that you can find joy in all that comes your way once you recognize that it is ultimately for the good.
Knowing that the true you, your ultimate potential, awaits you at the top of “Your Mountain”, should inspire you to continue the climb. Accept that every challenge and struggle on the way up is there to strengthen, teach and prepare you for you. Accepting that will give you the courage and strength coupled with the excitement to take on all that comes your way. You will learn to relish each challenge as you get stronger and wiser each time you take it on. Just as an athlete looks forward (not without some degree of fear, hence the adrenaline rush) to the next competition.
The ultimate goal of getting to the top is the goal of discovering you. You will get there by tapping in to the all that’s available to you at every moment in all that you do. All that you do means just that, in and with everything and everyone that comes your way. Elevating yourself means constantly tapping into to your other-centric giving you.
This is the pervasive theme of all that you will read on this site. I invite you to make this your mantra:
I cannot lower my mountain, but I can always elevate myself
