Fr. Michael Sliney, LC
“Don’t strain to make things perfect. Life in the present order will never be perfect, so don’t stretch to put everything right, to order all persons and things once and for all. Life is about living in the balance of the unbalanced, the imperfect, the never finished, the never totally secure, never quite happily ever after. We have to learn to live with the mess.” This Blessed Mess – Patricia Livingston.
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.”
Democritus
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” –Helen Keller.
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” – Jack London.
“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
– Sophocles, ‘Oedipus the King’
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
The Little Prince (1943) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“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!
