Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) Quotes

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

Israel ben Eliezer

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Driving
  • Gun
  • Season

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Want

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Humanity
  • Our
  • Egoism

• I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Control

• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Made
  • Admiration
  • Distant

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• I love to fly so much.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Love
  • Fly
  • I Love

• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Home
  • Song

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Right
  • Vegetables

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• With every social media, there's hate and things like that.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Hate
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • World
  • Character
  • Emotions

• Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

  

  G. C. Berkouwer
  • God

• To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

  

  Heraclitus
  • God
  • Hold
  • Fair

• All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

  

  Steve Case
  • Ideas
  • Weird
  • Obvious

• The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • God