Creating a Life That Matters Quotes

“Marriage doesn’t demand having everything in common or living a life of easygoing affinity. It means as long as we are together and here for each other, everything else is negotiable.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“Far more egregious are those couples who manipulate their children and wield them as a weapon to punish their spouse. That is out and out evil.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“There’s a pervasive but false notion that marriage is a matter of give and take. No; there is no taking in marriage, only giving and receiving. To take from another human being is abusive. Nor is marriage about dividing everything equally, split right down the middle, whether with regard to possessions or shared responsibilities. That’s not a marriage, it’s a living arrangement.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“The celebrity who loses control in his personal or family life while striving for fame and fortune in the world at large is not a genuine leader and is unfit to be a role model.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“When God told Moses to pass his leadership on to Joshua, He explained that to be a leader is to be slave to the people, and therefore noble.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“In fact, heaven isn’t mentioned in the Torah, except in the very first line. The rest of the Torah is about earth. Because our mission is not to get to heaven but to bring Godliness down to earth.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“Marriage is something that takes up so much space, it can ruin your existence. But it makes life worth living. Wedding vows should explicitly state: “Of all people in the world, and of all possibilities, I choose you to be the only one to ruin my existence. I do not want anybody else but you to ruin my existence.” Otherwise, people get married, and a month later they start complaining that they feel cramped and need more space. “I love you” turns into “I love you, but I don’t like you.” Are you suffering because he ruined your existence? Of course he did. That’s what marriage does. What, then, would be the appropriate response? Very simple: “Go right ahead. Ruin my existence. Meanwhile I’ll be busy living.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“This is also why when a person is down, we say find someone who has worse problems and help them instead.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“When God created the world out of nothingness, the first thing He had to do was create existence—because nothing had ever existed before.”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“Humility doesn’t require feeling insignificant and worthless. Humility means realizing that I’m important, I’m valid, I’m worthy of the privilege of serving God. Why struggle to eliminate the negative when we can accentuate the positive? The”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose

“If you raise your children well you can Spoil you grandchildren

If you Spoil your children you will have to raise your grandchildren”
― Manis Friedman, Creating a Life That Matters: How to Live and Love with Meaning and Purpose