“‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’
‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.'” – Charlotte’s Webb, E.B White.
Qualities of a best friend
Feminine genius
“Thank you, every woman, for the simple fact of being a woman! Through the insight which is so much a part of your womanhood you enrich the world’s understanding and help to make human relations more honest and authentic.” – St. John Paul II
Feminine wisdom
Small stuff…
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
—Winnie the Pooh
Sweating the small stuff?
Actions have consequences
“Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.” George Eliot
Actions have consequences!
Nature
“We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.” St. John Paul II