Inspirational thoughts

“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”

-Jim Butcher

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory.” —Mark Twain

“I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

-Frank Herbert, Dune, “Litany Against Fear”

 

“I’m happy to die because I’ve lived my life without wasting even a minute of it doing things that wouldn’t have pleased God.” Blessed Carlo Acutis

“When our lives revolve around Christ we find order and harmony. And by implication, whenever something other than Christ – money, power, pleasure, honor – fills the center, the soul falls into disharmony. The well-ordered soul begins to wobble and go off-kilter.” Bishop Robert Barron

“Christ’s invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.” Bishop Robert Barron

“We have it within our power to begin the world over again.”

Thomas Paine

“Religious experience is an essential dimension of the human person. Without it, it is difficult, if not impossible, to bring about the purification of the heart necessary for building peaceful relationships.” — Pope Leo XIV, Address to members of the diplomatic corps, May 16, 2025.