truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 23 February 2007 8:59 am

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 23 February 2007 9:01 am

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 23 February 2007 9:03 am

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 7:55 am

My bother, the passions are afflictions; and so the Lord does not excommunicate us because of them, but He says: 'Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me' (Ps. 50:15). Therefore, when beset by any kind of passion, there is nothing more useful than to call upon the Name of God. All we can do, weak as we are, is to flee for refuge to the Name of Jesus. For the passions, being demons, retreat if this Name is invoked.

Sts. Barsanouphios and John

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 8:14 am

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 8:15 am

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 26 February 2007 8:16 am

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
Lord Chesterfield