Marilyn McNabb

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?”
― Pirkei Avot

“Compassion is the feeling of sympathy which the pain of one being awakens in another; and the higher and more human the beings are, the more keenly attuned they are to re-echo the note of suffering, which, like a voice from heaven, penetrates the heart, bringing all creatures a proof of their kinship in the universal God. And as for man, whose function it is to show respect and love for God's universe and all its creatures, his heart has been created so tender that it feels with the whole organic world . . .mourning even for fading flowers; so that, if nothing else, the very nature of his heart must teach him that he is required above everything to fe the brother of all beings, and to recognize the claim of all beings to his love and his beneficence.
Horeb, Chapter 17, Verse 125”
― Pirkei Avot

“It is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it.”
― Pirkei Avot