Inspirational thoughts

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

“The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds … empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.” St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Constantly critical?
Legally “levitical”?
Profoundly “political”?
Psychoanalytical?

Eliminate the microscope!
Please stop pushing the envelope,
Just let it go…and learn to cope!

“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.” Coach John Wooden

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
― Mark Twain

“Enter more and more into the great silence. Silence: (a) of the tongue; (b) of the movements of the passions; (c) of reasons and reflections on the manner in which others act. Leave that to our Heavenly Father. I am finding great peace of soul now that I do not allow myself to be concerned with the doings of others, as far as my duty as abbot permits. I speak of these things to the Heavenly Father, as the Psalmist constantly does. Then that becomes a prayer which makes peace and silence only the more profound.” Blessed Columba Marmion

“The more I read and meditate on the Scriptures, the more I pray, the more I see that God’s treatment of us is all mercy … this mercy of God is the infinite goodness diffusing itself into the hearts of us wretched ones …now, when I am reciting the Divine Office, I seem to see in almost every verse of the psalms a beam of light which speaks to us of the divine mercy.” Blessed Columba Marmion

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
― Mark Twain