Selected quotes - page 11
Nothing destroys a person so much as prolonged inactivity.
Aristotle
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
Mark Twain
If you knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God.
John Chrysostom
Happiness does not come from the place you go to, but from the state you create.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
A home without books is a body without soul.
Cicero
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
What I see around the world would drive me insane if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word.
Paisios of Mount Athos
God did not promise that it would be easy. He promised that He would be with us.
Kindness is free. Share it, people. You won't become poorer.
When you lie, you lie to God; when you steal, you steal from God; when you have hatred for someone, you have hatred for God; when you don't honor your parents, you don't honor God; when you are jealous, you are jealous of God; when you begrudge alms to the poor, you begrudge recompense to God; when you plot evil, you plot it against God; when you work evil, you work evil against God.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Plutarch
Do not be ashamed to learn in adulthood: it is better to learn late than never.
Aesop
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
Marcus Aurelius
The learning process continues until the day you die.
Kirk Douglas
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
It's deeds we need, not words.
Vasil Levski
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
Charlie Chaplin
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
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