Character: elder Zosima

For all is like an ocean, everything flows and comes into contact in one place will touch you, at the other end of the world is given.

Love animals: God gave them the beginning of thought and joy untroubled. Not vozbudit her, not torment them, do not deprive them of joy, do not resist the thoughts of God. Man, not vagnosis on animals: they are sinless, and you with its grandeur and left to rot the ground by their appearance on it and trace its festering leaves behind - alas, almost every one of us!

People got infected from drinking and can no longer keep up with him. There were many friends to family, to wife, to children even; from drinking it all.

Interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of needs, distort their own nature, has arisen for many senseless and foolish desires and habits and ridiculous inventions. Only live to envy each other, for plutohome and arrogance. To have dinners visits, carriages, rank and slaves-servants is already considered such a necessity for which even sacrifice life, honor and philanthropy to satisfy this need, and even kill yourself, if you can't quench it. Those who are not rich, the same thing we see, and the poor have neutopenia needs and envy are muffled while drinking. But soon drunk instead of wine and blood, to lead them. I ask you: if such a person?

Not everything we believe is indisputable is the truth actually.

Most importantly, flee from lies, all lies, lies to itself in particular. Watch your lie and look into it every hour, every minute.

... Love the active compared with the dreamy love is a matter of fierce and frightening.

For happiness created by people, and who is quite happy, he awarded say to yourself: "I have fulfilled the Covenant of God on this earth."

Just before all of us is to blame.

Because offense is sometimes very nice, isn't it? And because the person knows that no one hurt him, and that he himself had a grudge navidul and lied for beauty, he exaggerated to the picture to create the word attached and peas made the mountain, he knows it, and yet the first is offended, offended to amenity, to feel more pleasure, and thereby comes to hatred of the true...

Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and to not having love, to occupy himself and entertain, is given over to passions and coarse sweets, and comes entirely to bestiality in his vices, and all the incessant lies and people and yourself.

Whether to take by force or by humble love? Always decide - take the humble love. So decide once and for all and to conquer the whole world be able.

Everyone go near his heart, everyone himself confess relentless. Sin of his own, fear not even realizing it. If only repentance was. But conditions with God do not. Don't hate who reject you, disgrace you, denouncing you and slandering you.

Most importantly, don't lie to yourself. Lying about himself and his own lies to his listener that comes, that really no truth in themselves or around not distinguish, and therefore, is disrespectful to yourself and to others.