Прохор Озорнин - On the Wings of Hope - Prose

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About life certificates

Each newborn person is given a certificate of birth.

A certificate of death is issued for each diseased one.

But how many from them truly deserve to get a certificate of Life – bright, meaningful and worthy?

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About life with no purpose

“Who wants to live will learn to run”, said squirrel in the wheel without fun.

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About word and deed

I prefer many-implementing people to promising ones.

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About the consumption of life

They said: “Enjoy life to the full”, but no one taught us to give it all we have.

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About national wealth

The richness of countries lies not in its gold reserves, but in people with hearts of gold.

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About the beauty of girls

One of the combinations of pleasant with useful is a beautiful and kind girl. Beauty is pleasant for one’s eyes and kindness is useful for relations.

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About awakening of the soul

When a soul awakens – one of many becomes one of few.

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About business-in-love

There are beloved ones in relations, there are no such ones as “partners”.

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About age

Age is an acquirable business.

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About small ones of this world

The best people are few – they are a suppressed minority.

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About discontent with life

If you are angry with life, what option are you left with – to praise death?

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About people and animals

Many animals have one indisputable advantage over people – they never kill others of their kind.

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About TV opinion

When you borrow your opinion from a TV – you get nothing.

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About bribery of incorruptible

Oh, thief, don't ever try – you'll never bribe the sky!

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About pledge of happiness

Pledge of a happy life – is to interweave what is best inside you into everyday life, into daily reactions and deeds.

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About deadly careers

The career shouldn't be a quarry – pit for your talents.

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About the color of the soul

The human soul has no color of skin, race, and religion.

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About human uniqueness

Everyone is born unique. Lives of many are too similar.

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About a way to wisdom

Knowledge doesn’t make a man smarter. Age doesn’t make him wiser. Religiousness doesn’t make him kinder. The clever person understands the limitation of his current knowledge. Understanding of nature of knowledge, which is temporary and limited by itself, leads him to a depth of own being, and on this road, he becomes wiser. With wisdom comes inner harmony, which expresses itself in kindness.