It is not how much we do but how much love we put into the doing. — Mother Teresa     Last year, I made a commitment to myself that I would mean Thank You when I said it. This is quite different for me from saying thank you when I mean it. I used…

  “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera This quote…

  Do not dwell in darkness like a night bird prey for the monsters of your imagination. Get up and seek the light, look towards the sun. – Rumi Recently, I got some devastating news and I found myself immediately slipping into what one of my friends fondly dubbed “catastrophizing.” I imagined the worst scenarios…

      Some pursue happiness. Others create it within themselves. — Anonymous   When I wait for someone else to make me happy, I am doomed to a lifetime of unhappiness. I have learned that I cannot condition my attitude on other people. It is not their role in life to make me happy, nor…

    I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God. It changes me. C. S. Lewis     To which I say “Amen.” Which, by the way means “and so it is”…