Category: Thought for the week

When someone offers you help, whether simply being polite or more, and you don’t accept their offer, are you insulting them?
A woman once dreamt of meeting the Creator who was behind a store counter. Approaching Him, she inquired, “What can I buy from you?” The Creator responded, “You can buy everything from me.” She promptly requested, “Then give me health, happiness, love, success and wealth!” The Creator went to the back room and returned with a small envelope. When He handed it to her she asked: “Is that all?” “Yes,” replied the Creator, “Didn’t you know, my store only sells seeds?”

Michael Laitman
Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.

Irma Bombeck
To be complacent is to be complicit.

Julia Gillard
If we believe we are here for a reason, then there is a tikkun, a mending, only we can perform, a fragment of light only we can redeem, an act of kindness or courage or generosity or hospitality, even a word of encouragement or a smile, only we can perform, because we are here, in this place, at this time, facing this person at this moment in their lives.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Not only do we have to break the glass ceiling, we also have to elevate the floor.

Sally Scales
Be careful what you wish for. What you want may not be what you need.
You don’t know anything until you know everything*.

Adina Blaustein*Hint: you can’t understand a situation properly until you’ve looked at it from all angles and perspectives
Don’t go through change, grow through change.

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We don’t postpone a simcha (joyous event).

Israeli woman to her prospective daughter-in-law who felt she couldn’t go ahead with her wedding due to the suffering in Israel