Chew On It
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Shalom! For all who wish to post a thought for us to chew on... here's the first one:
Desires must be purified and idealized, not exterminated.
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The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self-understanding, self-control, self-direction, and self-transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art.
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Butler, Samuel -
Imagination is intelligence having fun.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Einstein, Albert -
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Hakuta, Ken -
Do not follow where the path leads, rather go where there is no path, and leave a trail.
David Perkins -
"I don't know the secret of success, but the secret of failure is to try to please everybody." --Bill Cosby
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Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.
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It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
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Death is merely moving from one home to another. The wise man will spend his main efforts in trying to make his future home the more beautiful one.
- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern of Tomashov (the Kotzker Rebbe) -
"You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"
George Bernard Shaw -
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
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Not purified, not idealized, not exterminated but fulfilled.Originally posted by Yaffa:Shalom! For all who wish to post a thought for us to chew on... here's the first one:
Desires must be purified and idealized, not exterminated.
-Rav Eliyahu of Vilna (The Vilma Gaon)
Proverbs 13:12
NASB: Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life. -
"Know thyself" means: devote time each day to studying yourself....ferreting out your weakness, working at self-improvement, purifying your immortal soul.
-Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin, quoted in J. Meisl, "Haskalah" -
Hmm, I think desires should definitely be purified and not all desires should be fulfilled...Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:Not purified, not idealized, not exterminated but fulfilled.
Proverbs 13:12
NASB: Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them--every day begin the task anew.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it, but what they becimw by it.
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but the word "purified" by itself is meaningless... we all know what "fulfilled" is... but it cannot always be "fulfilled" (willingly or otherwise) due to one reason or another... and so... But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.Originally posted by Yaffa:Hmm, I think desires should definitely be purified and not all desires should be fulfilled... -
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:
why do you say that to have ones desires purified is meaningless?
but the word "purified" by itself is meaningless... we all know what "fulfilled" is... but it cannot always be "fulfilled" (willingly or otherwise) due to one reason or another... and so... [b]But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.[/b]
The right desire fulfilled is a tree of life the wrong one fulfilled is the pathway to death, hence all our deisres must be purified because of our evil inclinations... -
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
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