truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 30 January 2007 8:37 am

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 30 January 2007 8:37 am

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 30 January 2007 8:53 am

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 30 January 2007 8:54 am

“Many of the things that befall us, befall us for our training, either to do away with past sins or to correct present neglect or to check future sinful deeds. He then, who reckons that temptation has come upon him for one of these reasons, is not vexed at its attack, especially as he is conscious of his sin.”
St Maximos the Confessor

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:38 am

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:40 am

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

Prayer is the flower of gentleness and freedom from anger.
Evagrios the Solitary

Prayer is the seed of gentleness and the absence of anger.
Abba Nilus

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:45 am

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg