Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candle, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
Beware of those who want to convince you that it is impossible to strive for good just because it is impossible to reach perfection. --John Ruskin
Good books are a good influence. Good art is a good influence. Prayer is an influence as well. But the strongest influence is the example of a good life. A good life becomes a blessing for people, not only for those who live good lives but those who can see, know, and understand such lives.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.--Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Beware of groups of people who are harmful for your soul. Try to avoid them. You should praise good company and seek it.
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From A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Peter Sekirin, Scribner, NY, 1997
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GREAT POST, THANK YOU!!!
As Valum Votan describes the call to the Warrior Spirit: "Now is the time for a million spiritual athletes to step forward simultaneously and begin to shake the foundations with their spiritual truth - that the time of war is over, and that the new time of peace and time is art has arrived..."