“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” – Jack London.
Inspirational thoughts
We need Jesus!
“Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you.”
-St. Augustine of Hippo
The pain of discipline…
“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
– Sophocles, ‘Oedipus the King’
There are two types of pain: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
The heart…
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
The Little Prince (1943) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Embrace the present moment
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Embrace the will of God in the “now” of your life…with gratitude!
Loneliness
“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.” Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates.
Allow the love of Christ to touch all the lonely people in your daily life!
Loving difficult people
“Terror made me cruel.” – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Hurt people hurt people…assume behind every difficult person there is a deep history of hurt. Try to allow the compassion of Christ penetrate your heart…
A positive outlook
“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?” — George Eliot, Middlemarch
Procrastinating?
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
– Charles Dickens, ‘David Copperfield’
Kindness
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
1847 novel Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. William Makepeace Thackeray
