Perspective

Life would become much easier for us, many things would fit into their right places if we only thought more often about the ephemeral character of our life, about the ever-present possibility that we might die today. Then all the small miseries and trifles that preoccupy us would disappear of themselves, and things of greater meaning would occupy a more important place in our minds.

- Father Alexander Elchaninov, from The Diary of a Russian Priest