I remember an experience for my student days. I went to a wedding, and when I came back I met him in the Seminary courtyard. He asked me where he had been and I told him. “What kind of wedding was it?” he asked. I began by saying that it was a sad wedding because the groom had no relatives in the bride had no relatives, and the groom had a physical handicap and the bride was up in years. I got less than halfway through what I was going to say when he interrupted me with an exclamation: “How wonderful!” And then I realized that he was right. To me the wedding had seemed sad, but when I saw it through his eyes, from his perspective, I realized he was right. When two lonely people find each other, when two people, each of whom has little beauty, are able to discover the beauty in each other, how wonderful that is! I hadn’t realized it until he showed it to me. –Rabbi Jack Reimer
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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