"How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?"

-- John of Kronstadt

#Dream Quotes #Humility Quotes #Dwelling Quotes

“The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.”

Source : Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1908). “Little stings”
“I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.”
“A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!”
“I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.”
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
“Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.”
“I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'”
“Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.”

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