Inspirational thoughts

“You will never be happy if your happiness depends on getting solely what you want.  Change the focus.  Get a new center.  Will what God wills, and your joy no man shall take from you.”  Venerable Fulton Sheen

‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.'” – Charlotte’s Webb, E.B White.

“Thank you, every woman, for the simple fact of being a woman! Through the insight which is so much a part of your womanhood you enrich the world’s understanding and help to make human relations more honest and authentic.” – St. John Paul II

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
—Winnie the Pooh

“Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.” George Eliot

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson

I am not afraid. I was born to do this.” — St. Joan of Arc

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus