Haim Shapira QUOTES

1 " It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

2 " Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

3 " Ordinary people who live their lives peacefully, whose days gently resemble each other, may happen one day to stop and wonder why and what for do they do the things they do and have been doing for so many years? "

― Haim Shapira , מחשבות לעת לילה

4 " Uno dei criteri per definire il genio è forse la capacità di accettare che i confini della propria immaginazione differiscano da quelli del mondo. E' questa capacità che spinge a oltrepassare i confini noti e che apre la mente. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

5 " We, however, have all kinds of different ideas about what happiness is. Some must go bungee jumping to experience a rush of joy, while others find bliss staying home. Some are happy in a concert hall, listening to classical music, while children on a playground could be music to the ears of others. Some people experience elation when they solve a complicated equation, while for others a cancelled math class is a happy childhood memory. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

6 " It is much easier to choose to be a good person than to think good thoughts. "

― Haim Shapira , מחשבות לעת לילה

7 " Godete dunque dei piaceri della vita: amate un uomo, una donna. Andate a vedere le Dolomiti. Baciatevi sotto la pioggia. Scrivete le vostre memorie. Leggete qualche testo di filosofia o, ancor meglio, leggete o rileggete qualche famoso libro per bambini. Nuotate lasciandovi andare. Non mollate. Lottate. Perdonate. Cantate sotto la doccia. Fermatevi a guardare i ciliegi in fiore. Studiate la matematica. Imparate una lingua straniera. Indignatevi. Arrabbiatevi. Concedetevi qualche momento di malinconia e tristezza. Siate felici. Ammirate. Stupitevi. Pregate. Ciò che la vostra mano è in grado di fare, fatelo con tutta la vostra forza. "

― Haim Shapira

8 " Solo chi guarda la realtà con occhi da bambino può ancora provare stupore e meraviglia per quella cosa incredibile che si chiama Vita. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

9 " Quando cerchiamo di ingannare gli altri, a volte ci riusciamo, a volte no. Ma quando cerchiamo di ingannare noi stessi le nostre percentuali di successo sono eccezionali e in continua ascesa. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

10 " «El cuento trata de un rey sabio, generoso y humilde. Un día pide a su corte de filósofos que busquen una de las frases más sabias del mundo, una tan sabia que se pueda aplicar en cualquier situación de la vida para que te alegre cuando estás triste y te entristezca un poco cuando te sientas demasiado feliz. El rey se la quería grabar en su anillo.

Después de cavilar la petición del rey durante tres días y tres noches, los sabios regresaron y le ofrecieron esta percepción tan profunda y exacta:

Esto también pasará.

El rey se la hizo grabar en su anillo.»

Fuente: Lo que de verdad importa (Haim Shapira) "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

11 " In a lecture I attended once, the speaker concluded by saying that now we were all 90 minutes closer to death. People in the audience chuckled, but the speaker remarked, quite angrily, that what he said was actually rather sad. The passing of time is a deep and sad truth that no man or woman can change. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

12 " Søren Kierkegaard maintained that once a person finds the path of grace in his heart and fully enters the realm of love, the world – however imperfect it may be – becomes rich and beautiful, consisting entirely of opportunities for love. Eternity, he believed, will ask me (and you, and you) only one question: have you lived your life in despair or in love? Despair is a sign of a life lived wrongly. Despair is vanity turned upside down. Love is the way.

Whenever despair wins, it’s the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you’ve reached the path of grace. So, two roads diverge in life. The choice is ours, and the things that matter to us will light our way. "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

13 " Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion. Ethics "

― Haim Shapira , Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

14 " The party that’s mentally prepared to fail has a huge advantage. "

― Haim Shapira , Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust: How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives