• Every time a fast comes…they [monks and saints] don’t know what it means to gratify the desires of the flesh and I don’t know what it’s like to deny the flesh. If I’m hungry, I eat. If I’m tempted, I look.

    —Fr. Paul Girguis

  • I’m so learned, but I don’t know how to live.

  • “The person that’s rejecting you is the one with the issue—the one who needs you.”

    —Edward Rizgallah

  • “Yes, I have shattered your projects, I have annihilated your pride. Nobody needs you, you live without self-contentment, you are before me like a lamp which shines for the satisfaction of nobody, – you are ‘without any purpose.’ But you are my love and my glory, I placed my delight in you, you are the portion reserved to me, so well preserved that you are wanted by nobody else, and that you do not even think of being useful, you are my purest reflection because you have become the saints you did not want to become.”

    (L. Evely)

  • Our desires are possible to gratify, but impossible to satisfy.

    —Jonathan Bailey, The Eternal Journey

  • Don’t aim to get full. Be satisfied.

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  • “When in prayer, if we don’t feel joy and comfort, as does a little child who runs to its mother’s embrace, then we have either hurt someone through our conduct and harshness, or pride exists in us.”

    —St. Paisios the Athonite

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

    —unknown

  • “I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.”    

    —Malcolm Gladwell

  • “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