It's only when a woman loses her husband that she realizes what a great loss it is. There are many things like that in This World. When people are about to leave the world they look back and see what a good world it was.
There is so much sweetness in life, and it's a tragedy that people don't appreciate it when they have it. -- Ohr Avigdor Shaar Habechinah

If you're always busy, then your mind cannot think about the real functions of life. There is so much to think about because most of the Torah is thinking, not doing. Doing is very important, but thinking is the biggest part of the
Torah. -- Starting the Climb to Kedushah (#58)

Do not be ashamed to ask Hashem for things of a material nature. Cry out to Hashem to heal a toothache. Cry out to Hashem if you want that customer to give you that good order. Never be ashamed to ask Hashem. And ask Him for anything you want. -- Rav Avigdor Miller on Emunah and Bitachon

You think that you are very important and that you are doing plenty for Hashem. Therefore, when you praise Him or thank Him, you think that is like doing Him an extra favor, and so you think you deserve to get more in return.
Who says that you're so important? Perhaps you haven't even begun fulfilling your obligations toward Hashem. -- Ohr Avigdor Shaar Avodas Elokim

If we wish to live purposefully, it's essential, at all times, to remember the definition of this world. It is not for itself. It is not a goal. It is a place of preparation, and life is a career of preparation. -- Koheles-All is Vanity (#328)

We must turn our backs to the nations, as our people have always done. The darkness created by them, and by the misguided of Israel who imitate them, prevents the seeker from beginning his ascent.
They are a wall between us and Hashem; they and the Jewish secularists prevent the Jewish masses from approaching the Truth. -- Sing, You Righteous

We must turn our backs to the nations, as our people have always done. The darkness created by them, and by the misguided of Israel who imitate them, prevents the seeker from beginning his ascent.
They are a wall between us and Hashem; they and the Jewish secularists prevent the Jewish masses from approaching the Truth -- Sing, You Righteous

Shlomo Hamelech says that if you want to know how to acquire real treasure — the treasure of yiras (fear of) Hashem, which means emuna (faith) — you have to seek it like people seek kesef (money); you have to search for it like hidden treasure.
If you are able to devote yourself to this career of making Hashem real, you're earning a wealth that has no comparison. Rabbi Avigdor Miller on Emunah and Bitachon

​Youth and good health, springtime and sunshine, gardens and streets, are all part of the Creation, which the Creator declared "very good" and which He intended as a kindness to Mankind. However, in themselves, all these forms of happiness are nothing, for they are transitory and short-lived. -- Sing, You Righteous

​The inequality in the distribution of wealth is one of the great benefits that Hashem provided to mankind. If everyone was equally wealthy, nobody would work and human affairs would be in the doldrums.
It is only because people need money that is in the possession of others that they are willing to do things. Money is thus the incentive for doing all the things that men need to do for each other. -- Ohr Avigdor Shaar Habechina

"Yaancha Hashem b'yom tzara (Hashem will answer you on the day of distress)."
Yaancha — He's going to answer you. Which means that despite all the merits and mitzvos you gained previously, which make you deserving that Hashem should listen to your outcry, you still must cry out to Him. It's not sufficient merely to mumble a little prayer. It's important to make a big outcry to Hashem. -- Wine of Prayer (#555)

If you look back and see what happens to people, you will see very many people today who are frum and married and live settled lives, and yet it's all the result of some upheaval that took place in their lives, some misfortune. -- The Complainer (#379)

It's important to be grateful to Hashem for mishaps and misfortunes. It's like a doctor who gives you a prescription. When you taste it — oh, is it bitter! What do you want to do, poison me? But sensible people wouldn't say that. They paid the doctor and they paid the pharmacist for the prescription, so they accept it and try to enjoy it.
Hashem gives you His medicine free of charge. -- The Complainer (#379)

 If you study life, you'll see that even good health can be a peril; wealth can be a peril; peace can be a peril. And, therefore, although the yetzer hara (inclination for evil) is a great kindliness that Hashem did for us, it is also a very great peril. -- Contending with the Yetzer Hara (#788)

Hashem is in control — whether people admit it or not. That’s what it means when we say, Hashem echad. He is the sole power that controls everything. This principle is so important that we say it every day [as part of the Shema]. The Jew makes it his motto. Before he breathes his last, he declares it. It is a pity that
we so often say it hastily and thoughtlessly.- Emunah and Bitachon

 We have to train ourselves to look through the eyes of the Torah. Look at the world and see how many benefits Hashem is giving us. How many? Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, they're countless.
That's our job: to open up our eyes and recognize that Hashem has created a world of kindliness. - Learning to See (#E-36)

It is impossible to maintain society without the fundamental premise of a First Being, Who established eternal concepts of right and wrong.- Sing, You Righteous

We are the chosen ones because Hashem gave the Shabbos only to us. No other nation is commanded to keep the Shabbos. Any of the gentiles can do whatever they want on Shabbos, there is absolutely no criticism; on the contrary they are criticised if they keep Shabbos. Shabbos is an honor, it’s a badge conferred upon Hashem’s chosen people and others have no right to put on this badge. And therefore we celebrate the Shabbos to demonstrate we are His chosen people.– Preface to Shabbos (#439)

What will you gain by doing mitzvos? An edifice that will last forever. No bulldozer will ever come to raze that building, that palace you’ll erect for yourself. Think about the reward. It’s so important to constantly be aware of the World to Come. The World to Come must be the chief ingredient in our life. All our thoughts, all our efforts must be directed towards the achievement of success in the World to Come. -- Preparing for Eternity (#549)

We’re in this world to have a good time - haadam lo nivra elah l’hisaneg (Mesilas Yesharim). That’s the purpose. And I’ll prove it.  Let’s say a tzaddik fasted. At night when he sinks his teeth into that crust of bread, he has more fun than the fellows outside with the long hair, licking a big ice cream. Because they're so stuffed with nosherai, candy and other things, they can hardly taste the sweetness anymore. When a tzaddik eats, he's really happy with his food. -- The Afterlife (#R-35)

Kedoshim tiheyu” - you should be holy. This doesn’t mean that you should wash your hands and that’s all or walk on tiptoes, or look holy, dress holy.

​Holy means be like Hashem as much as you can. Of course He tells you a list of things but they are only examples. And why? Because I am. Everyone should be like Me, the more you’re like Me, the more you’re going to be happy in the world to come. That’s your success. — The Drive to Perfection (#736) 

For food to grow out of the earth, thousands upon thousands of miracles take place. It’s important to know that. Hashem makes food in such miraculously complicated ways, convolutions, and complications, all with His plan, with His system, and all done to prove it’s yad Hashem. And it's considered greater than the nisim of Kriyas Yam Suf, because from food we’re expected to learn more than we learned from Kriyas Yam Suf. – Show me Your Glory (#E176)

It’s important to realize that all the pleasures of this life are actually not pleasures in themselves. All the fun of this world is actually functional. People go out to eat, with music and entertainment. But as soon as they’re satiated, it stops being fun. People who go out to eat are trying to make an end out of the means. They try to persuade themselves that they’re having a good time. – Bitachon (#32)

“Ki shem Hashem ekrah — when I shall proclaim the name of Hashem, havu godel l’Elokeinu — give greatness, give honor, to our G – d.”
Just like the loyal American, l’havdil, whenever he sees a flag passing by in the street, is supposed to stop and he has to stand at attention, likewise, l’havdil elef havdalos, when you hear the name of Hashem, then you surely should snap to attention, because He surely is the One who gives us rights. – Shemonah Esrai (#267)