Author of quotes: Haim Shapira

Anyone who has a minimum of life experience knows that pessimism is the natural direction of thought. It requires no intellectual effort, like a stone rolling from the mountain. Much harder to roll a rock up a hill - that is to speculate positively. To think like Winnie the Pooh is not easy. To find a bit of beauty and wonder in all that surrounds us - that is a task worthy smart.

There are people who think that the endless whining and complaints about everything and everyone automatically puts them into the category of brilliant minds.

I think that modesty and somnicare is a completely different thing. True modesty is the most beautiful and very rare human quality. Somnicare is often disguised pride.

In the Proverbs of Solomon pride ("haughty eyes") is mentioned as the first of the seven ungodly things. Christians also put pride at the head of the list of the seven deadly sins. (Pope Gregory I wanted to be Mendeleev from Christianity and built the canonical table of sins.) What is pride? Spinoza believed susceptible to the pride of those who from self-love considers himself better than others. If Spinoza had asked my advice, I would add that pride is a deliberate error in judgment. Spinoza also pointed out that the reverse is not observed, i.e. none of the hatred does not consider himself worse than he is.
"One who surrenders to the humiliation, really appreciate yourself for your willingness to be humiliated". (Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.)
From my own experience I will add that, as a rule, those who speak bad about yourself, just want to be complimented, praised and cheered for. If you have done someone a compliment and didn't take it, so I expect you to be repeated.

I often hear: "Chaim, idleness is a terrible thing. You're wasting precious time." What I always say, that time will still be wasted. Anyway, time is always wasted. This is his essence.

Because the problem is not idleness. The problem is the guilt that we feel if you want it for a little while for him to surrender.

Hell is not when you do not love you. Hell is when you have no feelings for.