Sliney Central

“A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away—the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us—is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.” —The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens). As I read this quote, I think of the look that my mom, my dad and St. John Paul II gave to me…so powerful!

“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.” — Epictetus

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.” — St. Mother Theresa

“Perfection does not consist in having no friendships at all, but in having those which are good, holy, and sacred.” St. Francis de Sales