Inspirational thoughts

“Beauty remains, even in misfortune.” Anne Frank

“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby’s face.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”  Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Good friends find pleasure in one another’s company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart.”

St Alphonsus de Liguori 

“If you ever feel distressed during your day, call upon our Lady, just say this simple prayer: ‘Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.’ I must admit, this prayer has never failed me.”
– St. Mother Teresa

“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.” J.R.R. Tolkein

“Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost.  I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.”
— Saint Philip Neri

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Neale Donald Walsh

“Today’s society does not pray. That is why it is falling apart.” St. Padre Pio