truisms

[Ekaterina]

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden

[Ekaterina]

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

[Ekaterina]

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He, only, is rich, who can enjoy without owning; he is poor, who though he has millions, is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

[Ekaterina]

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

[Ekaterina]

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
Orison Swett Marden

[Ekaterina]

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's (I Cor. 10:24) That is the principle of the saints of God, both in times past and at the present time, from all ages to the end of the world. That is the principle of all true social structure. On that principle can be founded a human society that is the most perfect, the most pleasing to God and the happiest. It is a saving principle in every kind of difficulty that people today encounter, against which they struggle without victory and without hope. A holy soul cares for his neighbor, either close at hand or far away. He cares where the homeless will spend the night, how the hungry will be fed, with what the naked will be clothed. He cares and he prays for the salvation of his neighbors; that their hearts may be filled with love towards God, that their minds may be directed towards God, that the wicked may turn from the paths of wickedness, that the hesitant may be confirmed in the Faith, that the firm may persevere, that the departed may behold the Face of God, that the living may be written in the book of Life in the Kingdom of Light.

Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ochrid

[hochongs]

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.