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Some people changed easily, becoming completely different in just a few years. While others were like still waters passing through one hundred and eighty thousand miles, yet their hearts remained unchanged.

It is very difficult. If a person’s shortcoming is based on a long-term habit, most likely you will not be able to cope with it. I know this from myself. To be frank with all your acquaintances, to point out to others their mistakes, and always to remember to be of service to your master—this is what it means to show the compassion of a servant. But if you just brand a person, how can you expect him to become a better person?

So... Do I love you?

A great officer in peacetime is a traitor in wartime.

In his hands, the violin became a living creature that cried, laughed, and imitated animal cries. The public, shocked by the inhuman skill, explained it as a conspiracy with the devil. Many recalled how at a concert a black silhouette with horns and a tail danced around the musician. Thanks to Paganini’s strange appearance, tangled fate and tough temperament, these fictions were accepted as pure.

Women's Day was invented for Lilliputians - men who are indifferent to their women the rest of the time.

In my observations of life during my various wanderings around the world, I was especially struck by the fact that even in our time people kill each other everywhere under all kinds of pretexts and in all kinds of ways. Killing en masse is still called war, and killing individuals is called capital punishment. Everywhere the same worship of brute force and the same inconsistency... and this is done even in Christian countries in the name of one whose teaching was based on peace and love.

In Bucharest, Biden told the US's Eastern European allies: “You have the power to help put Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine on a path to lasting stability. It's time for you to take on a leadership role."

How awesome it was, but the time has come.

Is there anywhere on earth an unoffended soul? I was offended so much that I was already tired of being offended. What can you do if people cannot do otherwise? Resentments interfere with getting things done; dwelling on them is a waste of time. Such a life! I used to get angry with people, but I thought, I see - it’s not worth it. Everyone is afraid that a neighbor might hit him, and he tries to punch him in the ear as quickly as possible. Such is my life, dear!

Don’t go to church very often; on memorable dates it’s good to serve the Liturgy, and the rest of the time, pray yourself. Yes, and not by standing in front of icons all day, but by the memory of God in the usual doing of everyday concerns. Briefly, easily and even cheerfully, turning to the Lord: Lord,

It hurts that you have recently felt so many things on yourself that now you no longer feel anything...

Still, new times will perhaps require new consciousnesses!