Inspirational thoughts

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

—Kate Chopin, “The Awakening

“Your reward in heaven will make up completely for all your pain and suffering.” St. John Bosco

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” Shakespeare

“There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.” – East of Eden by John Steinbeck

“Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.”  St. John of the Cross

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.” –Saint Francis of Assisi

 “Carry your cross on your back and take it as it comes, small or large, whether from friends or enemies and of whatever wood it be made.” St. John Bosco

”By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.”General Douglas MacArthur

”Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.” General Douglas MacArthur