Inspirational thoughts

“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”   Rod Serling

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack.” Tana French

“Memory is a fickle, treacherous thing: she plays games with you, twists things, hides the important bits, and when you finally corner her, she can vanish into thin air” Tana French

“Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness–stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.”St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

“Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates, we can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort, we can pump oxygen in, and waste material out, but there’s one thing we can’t simulate. That’s a very basic need. Man’s hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness, that’s one thing we haven’t licked yet.”  Rod Serling…The Twilight Zone

“My identity is in Jesus, that comes before anything else” Coach Joe Mazulla of the Boston Celtics

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Don’t try to figure out the whole road. Don’t try to control everything around you. Just take the next right step in faith” Coach Lou Holtz