Andrew’s Pieces of Proust
It pleases me to read and to share this compilation by my friend Andrew Ivers, Pieces of Proust!
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Today’s One-Liner (#52)
The day is short, and the work is great, and the laborers are sluggish, and the reward is much, and the Master is urgent. –Rabbi Tarfon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the Fathers (or Pirke…
Today’s One-Liner (#51)
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. –Mother Teresa
Today’s One-Liner (#50)
I tell you one thing – if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. —Sri Sarada Devi
Today’s One-Liner (#49)
Dostoevsky says that we are all responsible for everything, before everyone, and I more than all the others. –Emmanuel Levinas, Is It Righteous to Be?
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Not a door in the house had a lock. The door of the dining-room which, we have mentioned, opened into the cathedral grounds, was formerly loaded with bars and bolts like the door of a…
Today’s One-Liner (#48)
It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. –Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
Today’s One-Liner (#47)
When he had money his visits were to the poor; when he had none, he visited the rich. –On Monseigneur Bienvenu, in Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1.1.5
Today’s One-Liner (#46)
Pain is an enemy only when we do not welcome it as a friend. —Indian proverb Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes
Today’s One-Liner (#45)
Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement. –La Rochefoucauld, Maxim #89 Everybody complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgement. #89 –Translation by…