"Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs."

-- Martiros Saryan

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“Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.”
“Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (2015). “Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero”, p.28, Xist Publishing
“It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.”
“A car is just fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it.”
“I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
“Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.”
“If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.”

Source : Alexander Schmemann (1973). “For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy”, p.61, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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