A donation or help is never an obligation, it is a privilege and should be valued as such. Thank those who ask for help, for they give you an opportunity to redeem yourself.
To "love thy neighbour" is never difficult. Just remove the obstacles you yourself put in the way of your love, and it will embrace everything around you.
Everything can be changed from the past. When you fall into an unpleasant situation, think carefully what you should have done differently in the past to prevent it. The answer will be valuable guidance for you in the future.
Money is a measure of superiority of one human being to another.
A man can have a lot of assets. Money, knowledge, quick mind, physical prowess, strength of spirit - and probably a lot more we don't even know about. Keep in mind you might be running out of some of them while building up the others.
Choose the right thing to stand on.
My sins are written upon me.
You have to be dark to make a trip into the darkness.
There are so many pathways to the Truth one can easily spend a lifetime trying to choose one.
Humble yourself to the dust to gain the attention of the kings.
One thing you can depend on is human laziness.
Lazy people are sometimes like drunk ones: they do more damage then they are aware of and will snap at anyone who points it out to them.
We go to sleep to wake up in the morning.
War, a massive exercise in human sins.
Shoot me in the back - and I'll love you and cherish you.
Fighting a war only relocates it inside you.
By far the most precious resource known to man is pure vigour, desire to do something, clear purpose worth following here and now. Knowledge, power and money pale before it.
It's only worth doing those things which you wouldn't be able to explain why you did them.
Hurting yourself is a first big step to hurting others.
Hurting others is the easiest way to hurt yourself.
God and Satan walk my soul.
My spirit is strong in its weaknesses and weak in its strengths.
Blaming yourself for everything is one way to focus on what you can do to change the world.
Refusing to take credit for anything is one way to focus on the opportunities you have.
My love for people is coupled with a talent for hurting them.
You're never more confused than when everything looks clear to you.
Killing another man is different from smoking a cigarette, but it's not that easy to live on the difference.
Making a mistake is much more fun when you know what you're doing.
I am too lazy to be lazy.
You never know if your addict friend, who's draining your wallet three times a week, is really saving you from the fallacy of consumerism.
Reality is but a look into ourselves.
The flames of Hell pale in comparison to the void of nothingness.
The surest way to waste time is to measure it with clocks.
It's easy to misjudge people by choices they don't really make.
Learn virtue by turning your heart, not your hands.
Death is something all the immortal have to go through.
Whatever I possess is just another layer of fat around me.
The height of our civilization has already been reached in its focus on what you can touch and hear and see, and its oblivion for everything else.
A piece of dark, lifeless charcoal can be a good source of light and warmth if only set on fire.
XXI century: mainstream cinema establishes itself as an art which is technically impeccable, but essentially empty.
Traditions tend to drag you into wrongfulness as time goes by.
We have enough time for anything in our lives until we start cutting it into packages, selling some of them and throwing out the rest.
When you want to play God, it's a good idea to ask Him for advice.
Heart is a compass for space and time. Follow it and you won't need to worry about the future.
The mystery of lack of life is as deep as that of life itself.
So many great ideas. All of them pointless.
Even if this lifetime is a fleeting moment, which has suddenly appeared out of nothing, bound to disappear into nothing, it's well worth living it as if you lived a thousand lifetimes before it and will live a thousand lifetimes after it.
The only thing bearable, or even pleasant, about a complete failure of your ethic and aesthetic values, is the inevitability of hope for something universally bigger than yourself.
A man without questions is often a lot more miserable than someone with no answers.
Some things require the lens of a long memory to be seen clearly.
Every punishment comes bundled with forgiveness.
Agony, a bitter-sweet drink with ecstatic after-taste of clarity and peace.
Good and evil are like poles of a magnet: no matter how many times you divide them, you'll find both in every part.
Reality is what brings you beyond imagination.
Heart as the last asylum from one's body and mind.
Humanitarianism, in a way, is a resource. When depleted (e.g. "completed") we'll face issues much scarier than hungry children and suppressed voices.
While the hardships of simple toil tend to bring out good in people, a life of ease and comfort often proves to be a straight road into evil misery.
The agony of a motionless soul.
Thought is real. Reality is human thought.
If you're happy being unhappy, you're screwed either way.
I find myself in disgust of any contest which can place one human being higher or lower than another.
In a physical sense, existence is an elaborate description of inexistence.
Pain is the chisel for mind and heart.
In a land of the kneeling and crawling, the most intrepid and courageous will hesitate to stand upright.
I have to distract my brain and hide from it, like I'm a criminal, to converse with my heart quietly and secretly, like it's a crime.
A group can not be truly successful until each member loses personal identity.
Oh, scary, lifeless future. I catch glimpses of you, again.
The love of life can go from fear of death as the end of it to love of death as a part of it.
I fear the dear of death more than I fear death.
A step into the darkness can bring you closer to the light.
A sin is not in actions, but in the heart.
Hope that something good will happen, and you come to give up on yourself. Hope that you can do good yourself, and you give up on Him.
In a world so full of death, it's a surprise we can be surprised by it.
You can't be an expert in relationships without a degree in loneliness