Inspirational thoughts

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.” CS Lewis

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo Da Vinci

“You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.” St. Benedict

“There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy

“It isn’t good to let our thoughts disturb us or worry us at all.” St. Teresa of Ávila

“Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.”   Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.” Jane Austen

“You should know that as long as I live, I desire to do something in God’s service.” St. Teresa of Avila