It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLike a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: love
So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: happiness contentment
... skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: skepticism 1968
If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: human-nature
...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: friendship
In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous!
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFreedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: liberty discipline
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: communism
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