Selected quotes
The husband and wife should be similar to the hand and the eye. When the hand hurts, the eyes should be crying. And when the eyes cry, the hand should wipe away the tears.
John Chrysostom
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
Aristotle
Woman originated from man's rib; not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.
You cannot treat people like garbage and worship God at the same time.
When you die people cry and beg for you to come back, but sometimes when you're here, they don't even show they care about you.
Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.
Denzel Washington
A wise person can always correct their mistakes, while a foolish one usually cannot even admit them.
Actions always speak louder than words. Someone can yell at you for two hours... and help you. Another can smile at you for two years... and betray you.
The strongest people make time to help others, even if they are struggling with their own problems.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman.
Pavle (Serbian)
When you rise in life, your friends know who you are! When you fall down, you know who are your friends!
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keeps you very busy doing nothing.
An evil person is like a piece of coal: if it doesn't burn, it blackens you.
Anacharsis
Don't be a parrot in life, be an Eagle. A parrot talks way too much but can't fly high but an eagle is silent and has the will power to touch the sky.
Care most of all for your soul, brother, it is your only treasure. Everything else you own, doesn't really belong to you.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
A strong person is not the one who defeats the weak, but the one who helps the weak become strong.
What's meant for you always arrives right on time.
If you can help a person help, if you cannot help - pray, if you do not know how to pray - think about the person in a good way! And this will already be a help, because godly thoughts are also a weapon!
Nikolaj Velimirovic
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
Poverty consists not in the decrease in one's possessions, but in the increase in one's greed.
Plato
God does not allow a trial unless something good comes out of it... God allows everything for our good.
Paisios of Mount Athos
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