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REFLECTIONS
Of course, the thing that staggers you when you first come to France is the fact that all the
French speak French— even the children. Many Americans and British who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.
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OLIVIA DE HAVILAND
Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little — and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.
ST SERAPHIM OF SAROV
I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
JUDY GARLAND
The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that the sinner has a past while the saint has a future.
OSCAR WILDE
Three things are useless: washing a donkey’s head, adding water to the ocean, and preaching to sisters, friars and priests.
ST PIO OF PIETRALCINA
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.’
ERICH FROMM
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
LOUIS PASTEUR
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENE
We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realise that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.
HENRI NOUWEN
The longest journey is the journey inwards, of him who has chosen his destiny, who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over humanity gather round about them and join with them in prayer.
ORIGEN
We must have charity towards ourselves.
We must prove our love by fidelity to prayer.
EDEL QUINN
First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.
ST PHILIP NERI
To convert somebody, go and take them by the hand and guide them.
ST THOMAS AQUINAS
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTEN
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
GREGORY PECK
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
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