Favourite Quotes

St. Raphael of Brooklyn, “I am an Arab by birth, a Greek by primary education, an American by residence, a Russian at heart, and a Slav in soul.” 

Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great.
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
-C. S. Lewis

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller

The tradition of exchanging love notes on Valentine's Day originates from the martyr Valentine himself. The legend maintains that due to a shortage of enlistments, Emperor Claudius II forbade single men to get married in an effort to bolster his struggling army. Seeing this act as a grave injustice, Valentine performed clandestine wedding rituals in defiance of the emperor. Valentine was discovered, imprisoned, and sentenced to death by beheading. While awaiting his fate in his cell, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with the daughter of a prison guard, who would come and visit him. On the day of his death, Valentine left a note for the young woman professing his undying devotion signed "Love from your Valentine."

 The Writer's Almanac (2/14/08).
 
  'The notion I have of a Museum is a hospital for every Thing that is singular,' -Horace Walpole, Introduction to Castle of Otranto, 1764.

'Let the critics have their say: I shall not be vexed: it was not written for this age, which wants nothing but cold reason. I own to you, and you will think me madder than ever, that of all my works it is the only one in which I pleased myself: I let my imagination run: my visions and passions kindled me. I wrote it in defiance of rules, critics and philosophies: and it seems to me all the better for that.'-Horace Walpole, Introduction to Castle of Otranto, 1764.

Revelation 21:4 

"And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

 With a friend anyone could willingly endure banishment; but without a friend no one would choose to inhabit even his own country. With a friend even poverty is bearable, but without him health and wealth are unbearable. - St. Anthusa the Venerable, Letter to her son, St. John Chrysostom on ideal friendship

Full letter can be found at the link below. It is very beautiful, so I thought I should include the link.

http://www.monachos.net/content/patristics/patristictexts/78-anthusa-the-venerable-letter-to-her-son-on-ideal-friendship

"There are often orphan children at school. It's a hard thing to be an orphan. A child who's deprived of his parents, especially at an early age, becomes unhappy in life. But if it acquires spiritual parents in Christ and our Holy Lady, it becomes a saint." -Father Porphyrios

"Only love makes all things beautiful and fills our life and gives it meaning. " -Father Porphyrios

"Never Regret anything because at one time.. it was exactly what you wanted" A.S.

"to love at all is to be vulnerable" C.S. Lewis

"Holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot coal, you're the one who gets burned." -Gandhi

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” -Gandhi

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” -Gandhi

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” -Gandhi
 

“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result” -Gandhi

"Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith” -Gandhi