Author of quotes: The Abbot Melchizedek (Artyukhin)

Once Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky said after hard labor: “I only came to know myself and God in hard labor. And now I am sure that as much as a person needs happiness in life, he also needs unhappiness to the same extent, because he will not understand his own happiness either. " Sixty is a good age, but you only learn about it at seventy. Everything in comparison. Therefore, you should never say that life, living conditions are not good, because when we really get to the point that we will find ourselves in other conditions, then we will remember our conditions with gratitude that we lived in such an environment, with such people, in such circumstances of life. Some of the saints said: bless your life, and it will be blessed; curse your life and it will be cursed. Everything is inside us. Therefore, the most important thing is the inner core, our attitude to life.