Inspirational thoughts

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”  (Helen Keller)

“Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE”
– Alan Rufus

“We’re into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We’re into the age of independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that’s contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.”
— Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan

“Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as Thou shinest: so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from Thee. None of it will be mine. No merit to me. It will be Thou who shinest through me upon others” St. Cardinal Newman

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” Rudyard Kipling

“Mother Theresa of Calcutta wrote to me: ‘The important thing is not how many actions we perform, but the intensity of love that we put into each action.’ How does one reach this intensity of love in the present moment? I simply recall that I must live each day, each moment as if it were the last of my life. I leave aside everything accidental and concentrate only on the essential; then each word, each gesture, each telephone call, and each decision I make is the most beautiful of my life. I give my love to everyone; I am afraid of wasting even one second by living it without meaning.” “I am not going to wait. I will live each present moment, filling it to the brim with love.” Cardinal Nguyen, a holy Vietnamese Cardinal who spent 13 years in prison, 9 of them in solitary confinement, under the Communist Government from 1975 until 1988.