Inspirational thoughts

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

“I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie

“Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.” St. Teresa of Calcutta

“The cross, taken up hesitantly, is crushing, taken smilingly, by free will, and with love, it will carry you much more than you will carry it.” Fr. Jean D’Elbee

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our ego and live in another’s world.”  George Eliot