“If one thinks that becoming kind, respectful and caring will come to you with age, I say this: rare is the person who succeeds in this. One must train oneself since childhood, in one’s early years. The main thing is to remember that the goal of our life is not material well-being and external happiness, but in acquiring the grace of God and in the preparation for life eternal, and for this, first of all, one must gather spiritual treasures which no one can ever take away.”
— Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral)
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”
— C.S. Lewis
It is said that at one point where the Oregon Trail divided, there was a sign: “Choose your ruts carefully. You’ll be in them for the next 500 miles.”
“The words you speak become the house you live in.”
— Hafez
