“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our father's love—difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs—everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because—everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events—to the heart—that loves, all is well."
-St. Therese of Lisieux
Do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love. Do not be content with anything less than Christ. - Pope Benedict XVI
"Fortitude is a necessary ingredient in all virtues, for no virtue "happens;" but must be fought for." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
