SO GOOD QUOTES

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  • One of the most valuable findings from my research has been learning the distinction between joy and happiness. I go into this in more detail here, but the gist is that happiness is a state of being — longer-term and more complex — whereas joy is an emotion — immediate, momentary, and visceral. We spend a lot of time in our culture focusing on happiness and the pursuit of it. Because joy seems small, it often can be dismissed as trivial and inconsequential, making it easy to overlook.

    Yet focusing on joy instead of happiness has been perhaps the single most life-changing shift to come out of my work. Because joy is small, it’s accessible. I might not know how to be happy on a particular day, but I know that I can find one or two moments of joy that I might not have had otherwise. One more moment of joy every day for a year is 365 more moments of joy, and that is significant!

    7 EMOTIONAL LESSONS FOR A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
    By Ingrid Fetell Lee

  • “In friendship…we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years’ difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another…the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting—any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.” The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”

    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • “If you’re going to be weird, be confident about it.”  

    —unknown

  • “Different is better than better.”  

    —Sally 

    “When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.”  

    —James Clear

    “Don’t seek to be the best. Seek to be the only.” 

    —Kevin Kelly

    “They’re not the best at what they do—they’re the only ones that do what they do.”

    —Bill Graham

  • A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away.

    —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • “Long sleep is an unjust comrade; it robs the lazy of half their life, and even more.”

    —St. John Climacus

  • “A bad day doesn’t need to mean bad deeds. A stressful day doesn’t need to mean bad reactions. We all have stressful days. We all have bad days. And these are the days we are supposed to deal with properly. A good tree does not suddenly bring forth bad fruit because there is a storm—it’s still a good tree. Whatever happens around us, whatever happens within us, it should never be a justification to a bad result.”

    —Bishop Angaelos

  • “Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.”

    —Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • I decided quite a long time ago that when I write, I will only write that which is meaningful to me personally. If it happens to be meaningful to someone else, this is encouraging and provides the reason for continuing to maintain this blog.

    —Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov, Putting My Mouth Where My Writing Is

  • Some people ask if help is needed. And others just help. The former act as good people, and the latter are likened to Christ.

    —Monk Simeon of Mt. Athos