We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.
The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.
He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.
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