Inspirational thoughts

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Embrace the will of God in the “now” of your life…with gratitude!

“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.” Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. 

Allow the love of Christ to touch all the lonely people in your daily life!

“Terror made me cruel.” – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Hurt people hurt people…assume behind every difficult person there is a deep history of hurt. Try to allow the compassion of Christ penetrate your heart…

“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?” — George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” 

– Charles Dickens, ‘David Copperfield’

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

1847 novel Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. William Makepeace Thackeray

“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.” 

– St. Therese of Lisieux

“The reason for our existence is to quench the thirst of Jesus. When he asked for water, the soldier gave him vinegar to drink—but his thirst was for love, for souls, for you and me.” St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta