A person should make himself like a captain [on the lookout for ways] to perform a mitzvah.

Maimonides

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I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

La medida de la inteligencia es la capacidad de cambiar.

Albert Einstein

He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power. He who stays where he is endures. To die but not to perish is to be eternally present.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Charles Dickens

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

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