Nachman of Breslov famous quotes

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Inspirational #Prayer #Heart

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

#Life And Love #Today #Needs

Always help those who are being persecuted.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Helping

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Nuts #Riches #Teeth

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.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Prayer #Garden #Tree

It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Happiness #Mitzvah

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

#Home #Musical #Privacy

Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Giving #Gifts Of Life

The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Years #Egypt #Eras

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!'
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Truth #Boys #Apples

Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Book #World

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.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Dance #Home #Night

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

#Encouragement #Perseverance #Today

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Children #Book #Writing

Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Prayer #Heart #Heaven

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Children #Good Man #Manners

The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Prayer #Jew

The I is the soul, which endures.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Soul #Endure

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

#Humble #Pride #Winning

He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#No Confidence #Falsehood

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Son #Men #Parent

More men die from overeating than undernourishment.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men #Reason #Rely

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Lying #Men

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.
-- Nachman of Breslov

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.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Eye #Mountain #Universe

He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Accepting

Include yourself in any reproof.
-- Nachman of Breslov

I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Hostility

The man who has led a good life will find many allies.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Good Life #Men #He Man

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

#Country #People #Prosperity

Where there is no truth there is no grace.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Grace

Where there is no peace, prayers are not heard.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Prayer

Where there is no compassion, crime increases.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Compassion #Crime #No Compassion

Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.
-- Nachman of Breslov

When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Helping #Share #Scholar

When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Father #Son #Fool

We each have the kind of children we deserve.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Children #Kind #Deserve

Victory cannot tolerate truth.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Victory #Tolerate

Unfounded hate only multiplies quarrels.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Hate

Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Animal #Compassion #Toothache

To revive a man is no slight thing.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men

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

#Heart #New Thought

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

#World #Hostility

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

#Pride #Men #Torah

Common sense is strengthened by joy.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Common Sense #Joy #Common

If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men #Helping #Trouble

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

#Writing #Ancient

An angry man is unfit to pray.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Anger #Men #Praying

Always help the persecuted.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Helping

A strict master will not have understanding sons.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Son #Understanding

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men #Honor #Deserve

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

#Humble #Men #Giving

A modest woman has good children.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Children #Modest

A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.
-- Nachman of Breslov

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men

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

#Believe #Men #Miracle

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

#Giving #Desire #Charity

A drunkard cannot plead his case.
-- Nachman of Breslov

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men #Morality #Helping

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Justice #Charity

Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Prayer #Men #Giving

God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Forget

Freedom is the world of joy.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Joy #World

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Flattery #Vulgarity #Flatterer

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

#Sadness #Evil

Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Heart

Even the poor should give something to charity.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Giving #Charity #Poor

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Men #Young Women

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Rational #Believer #Superstitious

Charity cures heartaches.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Heartache #Charity

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Character #Charity

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

#Laws Of Nature

Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Children #Care #Married

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.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Night #Wind #Bird

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.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Beautiful #Prayer #Flower

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Thinking #Five Senses

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.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Essence #Opposites #Two

Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Spiritual #Joy #Quests