“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” Edmund Burke
Inspirational thoughts
Seeing challenges as opportunities
“See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations.” Anthony Doerr- All the Light We Cannot See
Hopeful?
“From the death of each day’s hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow.” Charles Dickens
God’s unconditional love
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” Charles Dickens
Fidelity
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
—George Eliot, Middlemarch
The present…
“Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!”
‒ H. W. Longfellow, ‘A Psalm Of Life’
Open to change?
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Make today great!
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.” Mark Twain
Wisdom
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.” Mark Twain
Getting older…
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain