Simonova Zvestov Quotes & Sayings

Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star? — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Positive thinking is great, if you'll take action. — Guy Harduf

You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself. — John O'Donohue

Death belonged to life like mould to bread. — Robert Seethaler

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole person, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth ... . — Pope Pius XII

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged. — Mason Cooley

David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his worship - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though our affections for God may wax and wane, His character is unchanging! We even see David speaking to his own soul, demanding of it, "Bless the Lord!" — Laura Story

It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find. — Laura Dave

We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give. — George Alexiou

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save. — James Denney

A whole castle full of damsels intent upon securing a husband?" Wesley mimicked in surprise. "Why, of course. What reasonable man would not be thrilled with such a prospect?"

-Wesley — Katharine Ashe

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. — Publilius Syrus

Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things. — Julia Green

Something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time: a small red flame
a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design, relit before the beaten-copper doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther, in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones. — Evelyn Waugh

And it wasn't that you couldn't be friends with a married woman, but you weren't friends in the same way, she didn't have the same freedom i her schedule, especially not after she had children, and even before that, she didn't need you; you needed friendship, and friendship to her was auxiliary, extra. — Curtis Sittenfeld