Inspirational thoughts

“The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light—only those who have experienced it can understand that.” Albert Einstein

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
Seneca

“I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.”  Tom Landry (former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys)

“At the heart of the world there dwells the mystery of man discovering himself to be God’s son in the course of a historical and psychological process in which constraint and freedom as well as the weight of sin and the breath of the Spirit alternate and struggle for the upper hand.” Pope St. Paul VI

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.”
Elvis Presley

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Merely to remain true to the faith is not enough. Certainly we must preserve and defend the treasure of truth and grace that we have inherited through Christian tradition. … But neither the preservation nor the defense of the faith exhausts the duty of the Church in regard to the gifts it has been given. The very nature of the gifts which Christ has given the Church demands that they be extended to others and shared with others.” Pope St. Paul VI

“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun’s rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life–and over all is God’s truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.” Leo Tolstoy

“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.” St. John of the Cross