I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.
Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?
What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.
Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
Who does not grow, declines.
The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.
In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.