- I neither approve nor condemn anything, I have my hands full with my own filth. If I clear the world of a small speck of myself, that will be enough for the world. Save yourself and you’ve had enough.
- Love is not a feeling, it is a virtue. It is the amount of good we do, regardless of the payoff. When you do it for no reason. Here’s grandma on the subway, give her your seat. There is no need to burn with feelings for her, you need to do it, do it.
- Any, any deed that is past love is past God. And bypassing God is completely bypassed.
- Do something good for someone, for nothing, but every day. All the time in a plus, in a positive way. You will see how your heart will heal! You can live completely differently. You know, like on the escalator in the subway. He is going down, but he needs to go up, everyone is going down, and you are going up. There is no other way; and this will not be human-pleasing. Then the person will strive to rise to the level that you set for him.
- If you are at the very bottom, then you are actually in a good position: you have nowhere else to go but up.
- Ask yourself one question: “Why am I living?” Just ask it really. I think that if no one felt good because I lived the day today, it was in vain.
- We all, and me first of all, need to learn to say “no” to ourselves.
- Easy to say — hard to do. It’s difficult. But if you try hard, understand that there is simply no other way to live, then it works out.
- Not forgiving an offender is the same as being angry at something that has hit you. It’s always your fault; but it sometimes hurts so much that you hit the thing or throw it on the floor. So what? I just hurt my hand or bounced off the floor and hit my forehead! Resentment is a hellish state: there is no peace anywhere.
- It is important how we die! It’s one thing for the truth and quite another for vodka.
- Life sometimes hits you, but these blows are medicine.
- Learn to lose and not regret it.
- We need to know that all bad thoughts are not ours, they are from the devils. Ours is good. This means you need to love yourself. But yourself – as originally conceived. And everything that is prodigal and greedy is not mine. And it becomes easier. You begin to drive away everything that is alien.
- In my opinion, a saint differs from a sinner in that he has learned to love.
- If we have taken 9,100 steps away from God and one step towards God, then we are moving.
- Spirit creates forms for himself. You cannot be a bad person and a good writer.
- Without love, a person dies alive — a living corpse. He walks, does his business, fulfills his duty, but is out of breath.
- We are interested in how things are in Bangladesh, how in Japan after the earthquake. What earthquake?! Each of us has an earthquake inside. A man drowns in the river. Shouts: “Help!” And they tell him: “You know, in Japan…”
- If we see disgust, it means it’s in us. Like connects with like. If I say: here goes the thief, it means that I myself stole, if not a thousand dollars, then a nail. Don’t judge people, look at yourself.
- If you do good and reveal it to people, then the good becomes something that didn’t happen.
- I once entered the house, I thought, now I’ll turn on the computer, but there was no electricity. And I found myself in complete darkness. Lie down sometime in the dark, turn off all the beeps and ask yourself this question: who are you and how do you live? Am I generally a normal guy or so-so?
- The thieves are right when they say: there are no pockets in a coffin. What you have collected in your soul is what you will lie with! Human life is like a ray. Man has a beginning and no end! You see, how interesting it is!
- Life is very difficult. Very little love and a lot of loneliness. Long difficult hours when no one is there or, in general, no one is needed. It’s even worse in company: you either talk incessantly, or you’re silent and hate everyone.
- Money is good, it’s all in the motive. Here are two women washing the floor. One in order to receive a salary on the 15th, and the second so that it is clean. As a result, they will both receive their salaries on the 15th. But one washes “there”, and the second goes past. You can kill a person with a knife, or you can cut bread. The same with money.
- We have to work and there is no point in being discouraged, life is not a resort, and in general we will all soon die quickly. And everything will be there for everyone who has managed to do as much as they can, and therefore, as they say, hurry to do good. This is really so…
- Evil has no essence, it’s like if you paint a black box, close it and bring it into the light, open it — and there will be light. Darkness does not destroy light. Darkness is the absence of light. Initially, everything was created with love and goodness. Only we brought evil into the world with our irritation, our misunderstanding, our condemnation. Only we embody evil.
- Sit down and write a good poem, if you are a poet. Sit down and write a good article if you are a journalist. Find the good, the honest, the pure, to make a small sliver of light in this horror. It’s always possible. Does everyone carry parts at work? Don’t drag it, at least today. Smoking seven joints a day? Smoke five today. This will also be Christianity. Movement, feat. So everywhere, always, everywhere, constantly.
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