SO GOOD QUOTES

  • If someone says something harsh to you, pretend that you did not hear it and that he didn’t mean it. Take it with gentleness, laugh, turn it into something funny, don’t turn it into something serious. You can’t win people with absolute seriousness, you can’t… Christ the Lord endured all our sins.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda Ill

  • If one says a word to you, you could accept the word calmly, or you could think about it deeply: Why did he say this? What did he mean? Did he mean to belittle me? I cannot keep quiet. Here you have allowed the word to affect you profoundly, and so it became deeply-rooted in you. Therefore, do not ponder daily events in depth; overlook them and allow them to pass by calmly. Only those thoughts which take root in your mind and heart will bother you.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Monastic Treasures for All of Us

  • Humble yourself before God; that is, like the wise thief say from your whole heart: “I have received as I deserve according to my deeds. Remember me, O Lord, when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom.” Do not be like the other thief who railed at everyone, cursed, blamed others for his sufferings, and in this way only made his situation worse and perished.

    —Abbot Nikon Vorobiev, Abbot Nikon Letters to Spiritual Children p.174

  • Sometimes our failure in dealing with certain people is due more to our ignorance of how to treat them, than to their personal faults.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Characteristics of the Spiritual Path

  • How many times have you suffered from severe tribulations and vowed before God that if He saves you, you will do such and such? Do you abide by the pledges which you vow before God during your affliction?

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Characteristics of the Spiritual Path

  • Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.

    —May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

  • “Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

    ―Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

  • “People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.”

    — Abraham Hicks

  • “If I’m mad at somebody, I’m probably just mad at myself.”

    —Dave Chappelle, Equanimity & The Bird Revelation

  • It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

    —St Teresa of Calcutta