Inspirational thoughts

“What is right to be done, cannot be done too soon.” Jane Austen

“Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.” Josef Pieper
What better place than a Catholic chapel to have this leisure time with Jesus…so restorative and helpful for the soul!

You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.Viktor Frankl
Listen to the Holy Spirit and be open to changes and modifications of your dreams and plans…never forgetting that our main “mission” is to be holy and to reflect the love of Christ to every soul we meet along the way…

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!” Jane Austen     My mom is pictured below, with my dear grandmother who had a huge impact on my priestly vocation (and on my dad’s early formation)…they were both such pillars of long enduring love and endless hope!

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Jane Austen

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” -Amelia Earhart

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

Germinal (Émile Zola)

“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl