Inspirational thoughts

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.”  Graham Greene

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.”
— Tana French

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” – Paradise Lost by John Milton

“Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.”

-St. John of The Cross

“No one is ever holy without suffering.”

— Evelyn Waugh