Quotes
Top Three
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
– Mother Teresa
“Do not forget that holiness consists not in extraordinary actions, but in performing your duties well.”
– St. Maximilian Kolbe
“The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
– St. Irenaeus
Additional QUOTES
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
– Viktor Frankl
“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”
– C.S. Lewis
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
– Flannery O’Connor
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
– Confucius
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
“The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.”
– Pope John Paul II
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
– Emily Dickinson
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
– John Muir
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving.”
– St. Francis de Sales
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
– Thomas Merton
“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
– Fulton Sheen
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
– Anne Frank
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Mother Teresa (Do it ANyWay)
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
St. Francis (Prayer of St. Francis)
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.