• A sign of wisdom is not believing everything you think.

    —Adam Grant

  • A Man Called Ove (2012)

  • “If you’re willing to take the blame when you deserve it, people will give you the responsibility.”

    —Gretchen Rubin

  • …he shut all the doors of the world within himself—the desires and the needs—he gave up everything…he neglected the bodily needs so that they no longer had any authority over him. After he had tasted, participated, and lived with Christ…what need did he have for anything else?

    A Silent Patriarch: Kyrillos VI (1902 -1971), Life and Legacy
    Fr. Daniel Fanous

  • “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

  • “There are no bad days and good days, but there are days of prayer and days without prayer.”

    —Pope Kyrillos VI

  • After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

    —Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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

    —Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Where there is great love there is often little display of it.

    —Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  • Anger squanders knowledge,
    Forbearance gathers it in.

    —Evagrius Ponticus