truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 29 November 2006 2:46 pm

True silence is to the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body....nourishment and refreshment.

Wm Penn

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 29 November 2006 3:02 pm

When it comes to life.... the critical thing is whether you take things forgranted or take them with gratitude.

G.K. Chesterton

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 29 November 2006 3:36 pm

There is natural anger, without which one cannot acquire purity; one cannot acquire it if we do not become angry at everything that the enemy sows within us. But this righteous anger is replaced within us by anger at our neighbors, often for the most paltry, insignificant reasons.

Venerable Abba Isaiah

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 29 November 2006 3:38 pm

A person who feels enmity towards his neighbor, who is filled with hate and envy towards him, who speaks ill of him, is like a leper. For that reason he, like the ancient lepers of the people of Israel, is forbidden to enter the house of God. If he rejects these vices, he becomes cleansed.

Venerable Abba Isaiah[/i]

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 7:10 am

To make a bad day worse.........
......spend it wishing for the impossible!

Calvin & Hobbes

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 7:11 am

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictitus

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 30 November 2006 7:13 am

When you get to the end of your rope; tie a knot and hang on....

F.D.R.