SO GOOD QUOTES

Author: SO GOOD QUOTES

  • You want to finish your rule of prayer quickly, in order to give rest to your weary body? Pray fervently, and you will sleep the most peaceful, quiet, and healthy sleep. Do not hurry, then, nor say your prayers anyhow; by half-an-hour’s prayer you will gain three whole hours of the soundest sleep. Are you hurrying to get to the place of your service or your work? Get up earlier; do not sleep so long; and pray fervently—you will thus obtain tranquillity, energy, and success in your work for the whole day.

    —St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ

  • Don’t ask yourself, “What am I better at?”

    Ask, “How am I different?”

    Being Different Beats Being Better

  • “If you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.”

    — Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

  • “I want to live a life that doesn’t require an alarm clock—one that I can’t wait to wake up and start living each day.”

    —Joshua Becker, A Life Worth Waking Up For


  • I do not avoid movies that have ugliness or wickedness portrayed in them, I avoid movies that stir up my ugly and wicked passions. This distinction is essential. And it may be that a movie or novel that one person finds insightful and beautiful, another will have to avoid because some aspects of it stir up particular passions he or she may struggle with. Each person is different. I myself have found that I cannot at all listen to secular music without it causing terrible problems in my inner life, but I can watch a movie that some might consider inappropriate and it provide fodder for prayerful thought and contemplation for many days.Praying In The Rain,

    More Thoughts on Movies, Holiness, and Brownies
    Fr. Michael Gillis

  • Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet. Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you. Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that it passes by you. Do not detain it. Suppose that it is not yet come to you. Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite to you. Do so with respect to children, so with respect to a wife, so with respect to magisterial offices, so with respect to wealth, and you will be some time a worthy partner of the banquets of the gods. But if you take none of the things which are set before you, and even despise them, then you will be not only a fellow-banqueter with the gods, but also a partner with them in power.

    —Epictetus, Enchiridion

  • “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

    —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • “When you believe in the value you provide so much that you are doing people a disservice by not offering them your services, you’re on track to creating colossal value.”

    —Benjamin P. Hardy

  • “People will accuse us of being afraid or weak or stupid—which is strange, because having the power to say no is usually a sign of courage and strength and wisdom. Or people will ask what our reasons are. That’s strange too. If you say yes when they want you to do something, they never ask what your reasons are. It’s only when you say no.”

    —Dee Pennock, Who is God? Who Am I? Who Are You?

  • We should have the same attitude toward all of our fellow men. We must not classify people, saying, “This one I like, but so and so I do not.” By doing so, you will have declared war on the other person and that person will not tolerate you. Even though you may not have given any outward sign of dislike by word or gesture, you have done so by your thoughts and that is enough.

    Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: the Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica