Menachem Mendel Quotes

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.

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.

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

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

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

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

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.

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

God is only where you let Him in.

God dwells where we let God in.

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!

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.

Peace without truth is a false peace.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

God is only where you let Him in

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.

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!

There is nothing so whole as a broken heart.