Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi quotes

  • Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This is called luck by those who are unaware of the workings of higher Worlds. Providence also creates very difficult circumstances to reveal or dissolve a fixed situation ... This is called bad luck or later, A Blessing in Disguise.
    -- Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi

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  • I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...

  • I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

  • I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  • A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

  • What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

  • Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.

  • One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

  • If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.