Saint Basil Quotes

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.