Author of quotes: Concordia Antarova. Page 1

And people are divided only into those who know, freed from prejudices and passions, and therefore kind and joyful, and into those who do not know, chained in chains of prejudices and passions, and therefore dull and evil. Learn, my son. There is only one way in life: knowledge. Knowledge liberates a person.

The more energetically you drive discouragement from yourself, the sooner and better you will educate yourself, and inner self-discipline will become your habit, easy and simple.

You see now how sudden the blows of fate are, and a person must be internally free in order to be able to instantly join in a new life; not to wait for something from the future, but to act, to live in every current moment. Act lovingly and conquering, thinking about the common good, and not just about your own achievements.

Get used to meeting each blossoming day as a day of new life, where only you, you alone write on a blank slate.

Do not think that the highest nobility consists in shutting yourself off from those whom we consider evil or even our enemies. The enemy must be defeated; but they win not by a passive withdrawal to the side, but by an active struggle, a heroic tension of feelings and thoughts. It is impossible for a gifted person - one who is destined to contribute a drop of his creative work to the work of all mankind - serenely, without storms, suffering and struggle with himself and those around him.

... he smiled and replied that there are no miracles in anything. Everything that a person achieves is only this or that degree of knowledge, no matter what area the visible or invisible to the eye, comprehended only by thought and intuition, “miracles” belong to.

And every time, no matter where and with what sufferings you meet, you will understand that the reason for them is fear, doubts, jealousy and envy, as well as the thirst for money and fame. Other passions grow on these roots, in which people perish. The second half of sorrows comes from the blindness of people, from their conviction that all life consists in a small period from birth to death and that it is cut off from the rest of the world. And this main prejudice prevents us from seeing the whole Universe clearly and understanding our place in it.

All the convictions of people, their moral principles, their joy or despondency in relations with each other, goodwill or indifference, and the like - everything depends on the degree of their enslavement in personal passions or on their liberation.

The subjectivism of a person, under one pretext or another, always serves as a clear and sure sign of his ignorance.

To think that you can elevate someone to a higher worldview if you introduce him to this or that truth revealed to you thanks to your own labor of love is the same delusion as trying to explain to a non-musical person the beauty of a song.

There is little you will understand in the books if you wrote them a man stands on the steps of his work much higher than you. It all depends on the vibrations of the heart and mind, where lives the man himself. You can only understand something in tune with Yourself.

As for men who never won, I think, to conquer those who want to be conquered. But fighting over those women who are choosing who to present themselves better deal. Those who, like Anna, looking for true love, always a very modest way, if you do not have the talent and vanity. <...> in Russia many beautiful women that do not coquetry. Don't care for some of the finest and the most flirtatious.

Woman <...> in moments of the greatest grief are rarely able to be alone. She, without thinking, reaches out to the person who had her attention, to get a little damp razbiralsya her grief from the loss of a loved one. And man, an honest gentleman should be extremely careful in their words and actions. More than once I saw a woman comforting a man caught in a hopeless situation. She was down on him all the weight of his suffering and tied so tightly that they had either to marry, or to flee, inflicting new suffering.

Beware of the same philosophy, where we need the simplicity of wisdom.