We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth and both have helped us in the finding of it.

– St. Thomas Aquinas

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

– Robert Frost

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.

-Pope John XX111

“All you who are thirsty come to the water!
You who have no money,come,receive grain and eat;
Come, without paying and without cost, ….

…. Heed me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight
in rich fare.

Isaiah 55 1-2

Courage is not nearly so rare a quality as we sometimes like to think it is. We forgive ourselves the responsibility to muster it on the grounds that it is the unwanted virtue of unusual people in momentous circumstances. The truth is that courage is what carries simple people through an average day. It is not an action; it is an attitude. It is the spiritual strength that gives direction in the midst of confusion.

– Joan Chittister, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope

“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light a fire in the hearts of others.”
-Dorothy Day

Be praised, my Lord, with all your creatures,
Especially Brother Sun,
To whom we owe both day and light,
For he is beautiful, radiant, and of great splendor;
Of you, most high, he is the emblem

– Saint Francis of Assisi

“The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.”

-Mahatma Ghandi

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” -Barbara Kingsolver

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We’re here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don’t have time to carry grudges; you don’t have time to cling to the need to be right.”
― Anne Lamott