truisms

Pravoslavnik · Post by **Pravoslavnik** » Mon 10 December 2007 12:15 am

If at first you don't succeed try and try again. Then quit; there's no use in being a darn fool about it. ':mrgreen:'
Mr. Green

--W.C. Fields

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 10 December 2007 6:24 am

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Ivan Turgenev

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 10 December 2007 6:25 am

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Ivan Turgenev

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 10 December 2007 6:28 am

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Demosthenes

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 10 December 2007 8:15 pm

Everywhere a man will be sure to meet at least once in his life something that is unlike anything he had happened to see before.

Nikolai Gogol

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 10 December 2007 8:19 pm

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Saint Basil

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 10 December 2007 8:20 pm

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
St. Jerome