“Bend the branch while it is young.” Amish proverb
Inspirational thoughts
Love for Christ
“You can overcome anything, if and if only you love something enough.” – Lionel Messi, professional soccer player
Pondering
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin
Gratitude
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, but the parent of all the others.” Cicero
Corpus Christi
Humility
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Parents
“Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they’d be different”
― Tana French, quote from In the Woods
Stress?
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Compassion
“We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.” Graham Greene
Jealous?
“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle