Baal Shem Tov Quotes

#1. Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

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#2. Things work out if you have enough faith.

Cecilia Yeung

#3. From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.

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#4. If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

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#5. The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

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#6. The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pope John Paul II

#7. Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality ... Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Gary Zukav

#8. We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

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#9. It is astonishing and a little sad to realize how many discoveries, how many advancements, have been delayed for years, for decades, not because the information was unavailable but because of sheer cowardice, fear of being laughed at, of being ostracized by one's colleagues.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

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#11. We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession ... A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

Jose Mourinho

#12. Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

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#13. If you do not believe in yourself, others would never have a reason to...

RM

#14. Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

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#15. The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.

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#16. I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

Christian Louboutin

#17. At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Janis Ian

#18. Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

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#19. A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.

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#20. Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

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#21. When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

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#22. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

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#23. As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#24. Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

Mayer Hawthorne

#25. I am going out one door, and shall go through another.

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#26. Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

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#27. To pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get dirty.

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#28. Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

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#29. Everything above and below is one unity.

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#30. For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

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#31. I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#32. People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

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#33. Mind is the foundation of man.

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#34. There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

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#35. I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

Nicole Kidman

#36. Fear builds walls to bar the light.

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#37. He who is full of joy is full of love.

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#38. I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.

Adrian Grenier

#39. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

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#40. We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

Tony Dungy