Inspirational thoughts

“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as … the callosity formed round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.” St. Francis de Sales

“God leads every soul by a separate path.”  St. John of the Cross

“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.” 
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“We may well call St Joseph the martyr of the hidden life, for no one ever suffered as he did. But why so much sorrow in his life? Simply because the holier a person is, the more he must suffer for the love and glory of God. Suffering is the flowering of God’s grace in a soul and the triumph of the soul’s love for God.”St. Peter Julian Eymard

“As all partings foreshadow the great final one, – so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.” 
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

Only the fool, fixed in his folly, may think he can turn the wheel on which he turns.” T.S. Eliot

“To define is to limit.”– Oscar Wilde

“Who, being loved, is poor?”– Oscar Wilde

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo Galilei