Beauty and poise

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

--Audrey Hepburn

Glad

"We shall be openhearted and openhanded, for we shall know, in the depths of our hearts, that what we are and what we have is not ours but God's, and shall be glad to know it."

--Rev. Gerald Vann in The Divine Pity

Miracle

Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;

To-day the glint of green is there;

Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;

I know no thing so wondrous fair,

No miracle so strangely rare.

I wonder what will next be there!

~L.H. Bailey

Expectations

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."

--Sara Ban Breathnach

Joy

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Through us

“What we say does not matter-only what God says to souls through us.”

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Great things

“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta