"We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man."

-- Maimonides

#Men Quotes #Charity Quotes #Righteous Quotes

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”
“[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.”
“To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.”

Source : Seattle (Chief), Johhny Mohawk (1984*). “Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"”
“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”
“So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.”
“I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.”
“Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 21, 2013

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