Menachem Mendel Schneerson Quotes

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

When we talk about Something More, it isn't wanting a fancier car, a bigger house, or a designer dress. Something More is what we need to fill our spiritual hunger.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

Life is not just food, it's something spiritual.

Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Life is all about the spirit.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.