A Soulful Journey

  “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.” –  Anne Frank

“To be is to stand for.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel "To be is to do." - Myriam Mendelow “Say little and do much” - Pirkey Avot "Rabbi Simlai taught: The Torah begins and ends with acts of caring, loving kindness ." - Talmud: Sotah 14a "A person who runs to do just, good, and kind deeds attains life, success, and honor." -Proverbs 21:21 "Whatever I want for myself, I want the same for that other person."     -Maimonides "Advice and words do not fill an empty stomach.”  - Midrash “One who does tzedaka in secret is greater than Moses.” – Talmud, Baba Batra “No one has ever become poor from giving.” – Anne Frank

"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment to start to improve the world."   - Anne Frank "It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled and fell, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause; and if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that he will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."   - Theodore Roosevelt

“It is an unsettling thought, to think of Anne Frank naked, dead and rotting among the corpses in the pits at Bergen-Belsen.   Yet that is what the Holocaust is; that thought multiplied six million times.”   -Eric A. Kimmel