my cousin Vitya playing bandura

my favorite time of year

Dascha art

St Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."
-- Keshavan Nair

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"The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul."
-- David O. McKay

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"Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows." R.W.Emerson

The best part … of every mind is not that which he knows, but that which hovers in gleams, suggestions, tantalizing unpossessed before him. His firm recorded knowledge soon loses all interest for him, but this dancing chorus of thoughts and hopes is the quarry of his future, is his possibility." - Emerson

Графіті "Тарас Шевченко". Білгородський спуск. м. Харків

"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
-- John Updike