• Just as the intellect of a hungry man imagines bread and that of a thirsty man water, so the intellect of a glutton imagines a profusion of foods.

    —St Maximos the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love

  • And here’s David McCullough:

    There’s an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. In time I began to understand that it’s when you start writing that you really find out what you don’t know and need to know.

    START BEFORE YOU THINK YOU’RE READY

  • As a child is indifferent to whatever clothes are put on it, so also the Christian, an infant in Christ, should be indifferent to the variety, richness, and beauty of his earthly garments, considering Christ, our God, his best and incorruptible garment; for an attachment to expensive, fine clothes is peculiar to the children of this world and to the heathen…

    —St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ p.158

  • “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

    —Rainer Maria Rilke

  • “Very few people can resist saying malicious things about their acquaintances, and even on occasion about their friends; yet when people hear that anything has been said against themselves, they are filled with indignant amazement.”

    —Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • A.E. McAdam said it this way:  “No praying man or woman accomplishes so much with so little expenditure of time as when he or she is praying.”

    WHICH IS HARDER: PRAYER OR WORK?

  • If your brother does not wish to live peaceably with you, nevertheless guard yourself against hatred, praying for him sincerely and not abusing him to anybody.

    —St Maximos the Confessor

  • Strive as hard as you can to love every man. If you cannot yet do this, at least do not hate anybody.

    —St Maximos the Confessor

  • “If you have all pleasure, then life is miserable. If you have no pleasure, life is miserable.”

    —Ryan Nicodemus

  • I was thinking about these two characters from Jojo Rabbit and how much I wished the whole movie was just about them, and I remembered Errol Morris saying:

    I believe that there are no good movies, no good books, no good music compositions just great scenes, great passages, great moments.

    THERE ARE NO GOOD MOVIES