Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!
Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
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