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  • God wants that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

    —Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

  • Your unceasing working over of your obsessions will end up transforming you into a pathetic wreck, consumed by anguish and devastated by apathy.

    Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto: Rester vivant (To Stay Alive)

  • “You can’t rescue a brother who needs to save himself.”

    —Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

  • We all have value. 

    We all contribute. We all give back—if not through paid work, then as part of the human ecosystem. 

    “All Parasites Have Value:” Why Valuing Those Who Don’t Work is Key to More Sustainable Work Practices for Those Who Do

  • “The ineloquent man was wiser than the wise.”

    —Saint John Chrysostom, On the Vanity of Riches
    HOMILY Two
    After Eutropios, having been found outside the church, was taken captive

  • Do not be this person, who does not have the grace of God. Do not be the person who embitters those around him, causing trouble in the community.

    Do not be the person by whom others become defiled, through a thought of judging someone, a thought of / anger, a thought of revenge, and so on. Do not be this character.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Endure Injustice

  • The practical person does not spend his life in the past, but he learns a lesson from it and works for the present and the future, with all his might…

    —Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. 1

  • I’m convinced that there are a good many things in this life that we really can’t do anything about, but that God wants us to do something with.

    ―Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

  • That it is our duty to perform each task considered as worthy with the utmost enthusiasm is insured by the terrible caveat that performing Godly work in a careless manner curses it. But worry, or the many worries that trouble the heart and give it no peace, is a disease of fallen man, who under took to decide his own fate and who is tossed and turned on all sides. Worry disturbs our thoughts and does not even allow us to focus on the task at hand. I suggest, therefore, that you look into this and, if you find that such a worry occasionally overwhelms you, try to drive it out and do not give it any ground. Have enthusiasm for your work and, performing it with utmost care, expect success from God, dedicating the task itself to Him, no matter how small it is, and you will get rid of worry.

    Do this, and everyday occupations and tasks will not distract you from God.

    May the Lord help you!

    —St. Theophan the Recluse

  • “Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”

    —Wilma Rudolph