Rabbi Hillel: “If not now, when?”

Rabbi Yaakov Meyer: “Even the seemingly insignificant act is significant when it is part of many cumulative acts. Great people aren’t made from one great action; rather they become great via consistently good ‘small acts.'”

Albert Einstein: “There are two ways to live. You can live as if nothing is a miracle. You can live as if everything is a miracle.”

Rabbi Benjamin Blech: “All of life is a miracle – and we are not truly alive unless we grasp the miracle of our being. Three times a day Jews give thanks in our prayers for ‘your miracles which are with us every day.’ Recognizing God’s involvement in every aspect of our lives and acknowledging His benevolence in His blessings to us adds enormous meaning to life.

It took me a long time to grasp that the word miracle does not simply refer to the splitting of the sea or the sun standing still; it has far greater meaning as the measuring tool of our lives and the awesomeness of every part of our existence which we far too much take for granted. That’s why I don’t merely believe in miracles – I live them every moment of my life.”

Viktor Frankl: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Sara Debbie Gutfreund: “In every situation in life, we can choose how to respond to our circumstances and through that choice, moment by moment, we grow and transform ourselves.”

Grace Paley: “I think art, literature, fiction, poetry, whatever it is, makes justice in the world. That’s why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.”

 Elie Wiesel: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

Anne Frank: “How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment to start to improve the world.”

Pirkei Avot 2:21: You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.”

Rabbi A.Y. Kook: “I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.”

Hillel the Elder: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

 Golda Meir: “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

 Albert Einstein: “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

Rabbi Menachem Mendel: “To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.”

Hannah Szenes: “One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”