Inspirational thoughts

“When we are before the Blessed Sacrament, instead of looking about us, let us shut our eyes and open our hearts; and the good God will open his. We will go to him, and he will come to us, the one to give, and the other to receive. It will be like a breath passing from one to the other. What delight we find in forgetting ourselves that we may seek God.” St. John Vianney

“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.” Leo Tolstoy

“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness” Leo Tolstoy

“There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality .”  Seneca

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.” Joseph Conrad

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.”

John Wooden