Cool Quotes for Nisan

Show not your power in time of might, you know how fortune is given to flight.
- Ibn Gabirol, Mivhar HaPeninim

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
-  Carl Sandburg

If an account were kept of what we owe the Creator, no man would ever receive reward in the world to come. He will receive it only by divine grace.
- Bahya ibn Pekuda, Hovot HaLevavot

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-  Lady Bird Johnson

The Holy One hates him who says one thing in his mouth and another in his heart.
- Babylonian Talmud, Pesahim 113b

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
-  Chinese Proverb

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
-  Sally Berger

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine
-  Kathleen Norris

You shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's.
- Deuteronomy 1:17

To confess one's sins is to honor the Holy One.
- Joshua b. Levi, Talmud: Sanhedrin, 43b

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
-  G.K. Chesterton

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good deed by stealth and have it found out by accident.
-  Charles Lamb

I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-  Helen Keller

[Posted 4/7/05]