Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil
Related If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life you will regr... SUNDAY ADELAJA Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If you find your comfort zone, if you find your space, you will be a person in your own rights and y... APURVA GAGLANI You will never be brave if you do not get hurt. You will never learn if you do not make mistake. You... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. E. V. LUCAS You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY If you are going to measure the love you have and the good deeds you do with your walking rod, now y... PHILIP T. M. Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by other... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or t... HERACLITUS Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by o... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will... TERRY GOODKIND But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find ... BIBLE But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find ... BIBLE If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search ... HERACLITUS You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If yo... LOUIS MALLE If you can do it, why you won't do it??? If you have chance why you won't use it? DEYTH BANGER Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is... GAY TALESE If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will reg... SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are going to measure the love you have and the good deeds you do with a rod, now you are tryi... PHILIP T. M. Do not be afraid of being free thinkers! If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science ... LORD KELVIN If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disapp... HAZRAT ALI To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one e... JAMES A. MURPHY If you fail, you will be sad. But if you quit, you will be mad. Don't give up on your dreams. Get up... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You do not have to unburden your soul for everyone; it will be enough if you do that for those you l... ALBERT CAMUS Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon... SUNDAY ADELAJA Excuses will always be made, and blame will always fall on the other. Though the truth is before you... FAYE HALL If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and diff... HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and diffi... HERACLITUS All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have
to do is be still ... EILEEN CADDY An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You... J. DONALD WALTERS If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that; you will help on by your pe... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is tryin... LEMONY SNICKET If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it MAHATMA GANDHI If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. NAPOLEON HILL If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. GODWIN ELENDU PH.D A secret to your progress will be a strong belief in your own abilities. People will try to hold you... TROY GATHERS If you know were your going, you will do by all means in order to reach your destiny. NEMUKONDENI TSHIMBILUNI If you cannot breathe, I will breathe for you. If your heart will not beat, mine will beat harder. I... CAMBRIA HEBERT Don’t live a life simply seeking “comfort.” Comfort leads to mediocrity and you’ll regret in... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse... WOODROW WILSON If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse... WOODROW T. WILSON If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to pra... DONALD KNUTH It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you loo... TINA FEY If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset some... LEWIS BLACK If you really want to do something you will find a way, and if you don't you will find an excuse
-Ji... JACOB KEESECKER If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not ... DAN GEORGE Make it a point to do something exciting. If not, your life will pass you by. STEVEN CUOCO It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid ... PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA If you really want to do something you will find a way.If you don’t you will find an excuse. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do
good, good will be done to you; but if... BIDPAI (PILPAY) If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself. AMERICAN PROVERB Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your l... ROBIN HOBB Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu... WILLIAM BENNETT But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all y... BIBLE It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work CATO ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work CATO THE ELDER If you dont take care of things in life people will take care of things for you. But probably not in... KRISTOPHER LARSEN Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu... WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge... NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Your calling is what you will do even if you are not paid for it SUNDAY ADELAJA If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Ta... BRIGHAM YOUNG I hope you find a love like that–one that is all-consuming and powerful that makes you feel like y... JILL SANTOPOLO Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you... LEE GOFF Don’t wait for perfect moment. Grab it at the earliest.If wait too long for perfect moment,the mom... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have... ROLLO MAY If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take y... LES BROWN You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will... RASCAL FLATTS The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon fin... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's n... CHARLES YU If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent ... JOHN R. MILLER If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent ... JOHN HEYWOOD Potential: You have what it takes, your qualities and ability may take time to develop but it will i... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you. RICHIE NORTON If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ... JOSEPH FARRELL If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will... ROLLO MAY Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without... VISSARION BELINSKY If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accep... SAAIF ALAM Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doi... BERNIE SIEGEL Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you. V.E. SCHWAB If you put all these networks on-demand, it will be very powerful. And people will find them. JEFFREY BEWKES If Someone misunderstood You but You have nothing against them, But sometimes people want to see in ... AVNIJCUKY If you do not know the goal of your life, you will abuse it SUNDAY ADELAJA Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness t... LOUIS DE BERNIèRES Do not find peace. Find passion. Find something you want to die for more than something you want to ... MICHELLE HODKIN Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do no... ANONYMOUS If you truly believe in something, that is, if you care enough about it to not just dream about it, ... CORY GROSHEK Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies... DAVID OGILVY It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for wha... NEAL A. MAXWELL There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you ... ADAM SILVERA
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul roo... JANET FITCH You cannot win the war. You will seem to win but it will be an illusion. You will win the battles, k... CHARLES V. DE VET About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love yo... RITA MAE BROWN If your idea is big enough, and crazy enough, all you have to do is survive. If you survive, you wil... LILY CHATTERJEE If you do not live in active in active consciousness, you will lose time and fail to realize that yo... SUNDAY ADELAJA
More Saint Basil
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SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je... SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ... SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ... SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do... SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure... SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ... SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in... SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ... SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness. SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin... SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason... SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor... SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a... SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong... SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?... SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al... SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig... SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ... SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. SAINT BERNARD When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whate... SAINT AMBROSE It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard agains... SAINT AMBROSE The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril. SAINT AMBROSE Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my li... SAINT AMBROSE Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th... SAINT AMBROSE Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. SAINT AMBROSE In some causes silence is dangerous. SAINT AMBROSE God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi... SAINT AMBROSE Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body... SAINT AMBROSE It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well. SAINT AMBROSE One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wron... SAINT AMBROSE God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide ... SAINT AMBROSE God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and th... SAINT AMBROSE There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. SAINT AMBROSE No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. SAINT AMBROSE A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. SAINT AMBROSE Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also. SAINT AMBROSE When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. SAINT AMBROSE It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey. SAINT IGNATIUS Custom is second nature. SAINT AUGUSTINE