Feast of Saint Patrick

Whatever will come my way, whether good or bad, I may accept it calmly, and
always give thanks to God, who has ever shown me how I should believe in him
unfailing without end.

--Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick, pray for us. 

Share your courage

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

Many Flowers

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
--Leigh Hunt

Our Lady of Akita, pray for the people of Japan.

Seek Him

There are only three types of people: those who have found God and serve Him, those who have not found God and seek Him, and those who live not seeking or finding Him. The first are rational and happy, the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

--Blaise Pascal

A spark of heavenly fire

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

--Washington Irving 

(This, dear Hannah, is for you and your courageous mother.)

Cheerfulness

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
--Thomas Carlyle

The strong soul

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

--Thomas Carlyle