Inspirational thoughts

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” Emily Dickinson

“Don’t wince under the hammer that strikes you. Have an eye to the chisel that cuts you and to the hand that shapes you. The skillful and loving Architect may wish to make of you the chief stones of his eternal edifice and the fairest statues in his kingdom.  Then let him do it. He loves you. He knows what he is doing.  He had had experience.  All his blows are skillful and straight and loving.  He never misses, unless you cause him by your impatience.” St. Louis de Montfort

“Today’s society does no pray. That is why it is falling apart.” St. Padre Pio

“There is nothing impossible to God.” St. Rita

“Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.” St. Teresa of Avila

“A marathoner is a marathoner regardless of time. Virtually everyone who tries the marathon has put in training over months, and it is that exercise and that commitment, physical and mental, that gives meaning to the medal, not just the day’s effort, be it fast or slow.  It’s all in conquering the challenge.”
-Mary R. Wittenberg, former president, New York Road Runners

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. – Mr. Knightley”
―  Emma by Jane Austen

“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?” —  East of Eden by John Steinbeck