Ambrose of Optina famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joyâ€™s garden blossomed.
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

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