Cool Quotes for Tammuz

Minds Are Like Parachutes...

It is not a virtue to refrain from hurting others, but it is a virtue to bear a hurt patiently.
- Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim

Revere your teacher as you revere Heaven.
- Eleazar b. Shammua, Mishnah Avot

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-  Oscar Wilde

Be not like a bird that sees the grain but not the trap.
- Ibn Tibbon, Tzavaah, 1190

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-  Thomas Dewey

All my days I have been raised among the Sages, and I found nothing better for oneself than silence; not study, but practice is the main thing; and one who talks excessively brings on sin.
- Shimon ben Rabban Gamliel, Pirkei Avot 1:17

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-  Carl Bard

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
-  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.
- Moses Ibn Ezra, "Shirat Yisrael"

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.
-  W.J. Slim

Build your home in such a way that a stranger may feel happy in your midst.
- Theodor Herzl, Diary

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
-  General Omar Bradley

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
-  Rebecca Falls

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
-  Havelock Ellis

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
-  Dr. Joyce Brothers

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
-  Jonathan Westover

Life makes warriors of us all. To emerge the victors, we must arm ourselves with the most potent of weapons. That weapon is prayer.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
-  Dale Carnegie

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
-  Rene Coty

[Posted 7/7/05]