S.A. David Quotes
It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.
We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.
When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus
When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.
I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.
As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.