Reflections
In this section, you will find some words - borrowed from literature, good friends and mentors - that I constantly try to remind myself.
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which would safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.” - Gottfried Wilhelm
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” - Samuel Johnson
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” - Baruch Spinoza
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” - Father Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov
In God, we move, and live, and have our being. We live in God, but we are not of it. We're only human.
"If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties,' then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper,' but loveless. Only my readiness to encounter my neighbor and to show him love makes me sensitive to God as well." - Pope Benedict XVI
“We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.” - R. K. Narayan
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus
