Inspirational thoughts

“What should happen if you forget about me?” asked Pooh. “Silly old bear, I won’t ever forget about you,” said Christopher Robin.” Winnie the Pooh

“Open wide your door to the one who comes. Open your soul, throw open the depths of your heart to see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the sweetness of grace. Open your heart and run to meet the Sun of eternal light that illuminates all men.”   St. Ambrose

“God will find you,” said the priest quietly. “Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother’s womb.”  Sigrid Undset

“That’s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, ’specially in mud.” Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” Edmund Burke

“See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations.” Anthony Doerr- All the Light We Cannot See

“From the death of each day’s hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow.” Charles Dickens

“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

“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

“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’