”Better bread and water than pie with trouble” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, ”In the First Circle”
mart. 072020
Citate, poezie și literatură
mart. 062020
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples’ affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few friends. Keep me from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Grant me the patience to listen to the complaints of others; help me to endure them with charity. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains – they increase with the increasing years and my inclination to recount them […]
mart. 062020
“A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.” Anonymous, ”Holy Bible: New Living Translation”
mart. 052020
“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day.” (Epitaph for Joy Davidman)” C.S. Lewis
mart. 052020
”Tu, cel ce arzi şi încă mai arzi, şi-ai merita Să arzi în focul veşnic, de ce te rogi la zei? Ce punte-ascunsă-aflat-ai ducând până la ei? Prin ce putere rară îi vei îndupleca?” Omar Khayyam, ”Incertitudinile credinței” (fragment)
mart. 052020
“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.” Amit Kalantri, ”Wealth of Words”
mart. 042020
“Short cuts make long delays.” J.R.R. Tolkien, ”The Fellowship of the Ring”
mart. 042020
“Căci bunătatea unui singur om este cu mult mai puternică decât răutatea miilor de oameni. Răul piere în aceeaşi clipă cu moartea celui care l-a săvârşit, binele continuă să-şi reverse strălucirea şi după dispariţia celui drept.” Panait Istrati, ”Kyra Kyralina”
mart. 042020
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.” Carl Gustav Jung
mart. 042020
“Impatience destroys at least 98% of hard work’s potential.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana
mart. 042020
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” Francis of Assisi
mart. 012020
”Trebuie să ne golim de prea plinul Eu, ca să mai intre în noi un pic de Dumnezeu.” Petre Țuțea
mart. 012020
“Şi a găsit-o printre miile de oameni indiferenţi. I-a zărit mai întâi ochii verzi cu luminile calde și moi. S-a cutremurat până în temeliile fiinţei lui, ca şi când i s-ar fi lămurit fulgerător toate misterele vieţii. Apoi li s-au încrucişat privirile şi din uimirea ei a înţeles că şi ea l-a recunoscut, deşi nu l-a mai văzut niciodată.” Liviu Rebreanu, ”Adam și Eva”
feb. 292020
”Când inima îngheață, pune lemne pe foc. Lemnele dragostei.” (Anonim)
feb. 282020
“A ști să râzi în clipele tragice înseamnă a stăpâni tragicul.” Marin Preda, ”Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni”
