Best 60 quotes of Nachman on MyQuotes

All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.

Always help the persecuted.

Always help those who are being persecuted.

Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.

A modest woman has good children.

An angry man is unfit to pray.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

A strict master will not have understanding sons.

Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.

Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

Charity cures heartaches.

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

Common sense is strengthened by joy.

Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy.

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You will meet solitude there. There you will be able to listen attentively to the noise of the wind first, to birds singing, to see wonderful nature and to notice yourself in it ... and to come back to harmonic connection with the world and its Creator.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.

Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.

He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.

Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.

The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.

The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

The man who has led a good life will find many allies.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

There is Truth, the truth of the Truth and there is Peace. The Truth is 'the boy stole an apple', the truth of the Truth is 'the boy was hungry' and Peace is 'nobody stole anything, now, give the boy an apple!'

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

Those who are pure of heart find new thoughts whenever they meditate.