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  • “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

  • “Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.”

    —Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

  • Whenever the process of the soul’s submission to God reaches its full stride, man will never be able to bear any pleasure, comfort, or corruptive seduction that draws him away from his state of submission to God and his enjoyment of his obedience to him. This is freedom, absolute freedom.

    —Matthew the Poor, Orthodox Prayer Life