Fr. Michael Sliney, LC
“It is only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.” Rumer Godden
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!” Mark Twain
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway
“There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms: a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.” Rumer Godden
“I have never understood why ‘hard work’ is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of “making” how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying.” Rumer Godden
“Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.” Alexander Pushkin
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” J.R.R Tolkien
“Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.” Mark Twain
