Lord, please let me be half the man my dog thinks I am.
Anonymous
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. There will be times in your life when you will have been all of these.
Anonymous
Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be.
St. John Berchmans
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.
Robin McKinley
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
Pedro Arrupe, S. J.
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust