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"'one should not repress the words, any more than one should hide visible emotion when it is genuine, for this can be just as unkind a wrong as holding back from a man what is due him. Your friend, your beloved, your child, or whoever is the object of your love, has a claim upon its expression also in words when it really moves you inwardly. The emotion is not your possession but the other's.'" — Sep 14, 2026 08:22AM
"'one should not repress the words, any more than one should hide visible emotion when it is genuine, for this can be just as unkind a wrong as holding back from a man what is due him. Your friend, your beloved, your child, or whoever is the object of your love, has a claim upon its expression also in words when it really moves you inwardly. The emotion is not your possession but the other's.'" — Sep 14, 2026 08:22AM
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"Easily one of the most profound books I have read in a while!" — Sep 06, 2026 12:34PM
"Easily one of the most profound books I have read in a while!" — Sep 06, 2026 12:34PM
“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.”
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“The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do. I must die. But must I die bawling? I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet there also are dragons and there are lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the treasures of evil. And there are rough and uneven roads; there are precipices. But there is also God, also the angels, the life and the kingdom, the light and the Apostles, the treasures of grace---there are all things.”
― Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and The Great Letter (Classics of Western Spirituality
― Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and The Great Letter (Classics of Western Spirituality
“It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.”
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