Inspirational thoughts

The patient and humble endurance of the cross – whatever nature it may be – is the highest work we have to do. St. Katherine Drexel

“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour! Improve each moment as it flies!” St. Jerome

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
― Alfred Tennyson

“I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.” Charles Dickens

“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.” Dale Carnegie

“What should happen if you forget about me?” asked Pooh. “Silly old bear, I won’t ever forget about you,” said Christopher Robin.” Winnie the Pooh

“Open wide your door to the one who comes. Open your soul, throw open the depths of your heart to see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the sweetness of grace. Open your heart and run to meet the Sun of eternal light that illuminates all men.”   St. Ambrose

“God will find you,” said the priest quietly. “Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother’s womb.”  Sigrid Undset

“That’s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, ’specially in mud.” Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing