Michael Sliney

”People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.”

Flannery O’Connor

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” —St.Thomas Moore

“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side. A sense of the dramatic, of the tragic, of the infinite, has descended upon us, filling us with grief, but even above grief, wonder. Our plans were so beautifully laid out, ready to be carried to action, but with magnificent certainty God laid them aside and said, ‘You have forgotten — Mine?’” Flannery O’Connor. I personally benefit from taking a meditative walk around cemeteries…we all need to be ready for the day when God decides to call us!

“To thine own self be true.” — William Shakespeare

“Challenges make life interesting, however overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Mark Twain