“Isolate as much as you want to become stronger, even if you see that loneliness is an unbearable hell,
it is much better than the multiple masks of humans.”
– Dostoevsky

“Operating out of my true self demands close attention to reality at every moment, and great fidelity to
God as He reveals Himself, obscurely, in the mystery of each new situation.”
– Thomas Merton

“I found you in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. I surrounded you and watched over you;
I guarded you as I would guard my own eyes, as I guard my own heart.”
 – Deut. 32:10

“I did it alone. I did it broke. I did it mostly exhausted and mostly terrified. But I did it.”
– unknown

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.”
– Carl Jung

“The wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”
– O Sensei Ueshiba

“A person of faith is not one who believes that God can do everything, but one who believes they can
obtain everything from God.”
– St John of the Cross

“If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside
of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.”
– Dostoyevsky

“Weak people take revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
– Albert Einstein                                                                                

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they
enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue
to disappoint them.”                                                     
– Jodi Picoult

“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.”
– Robert Murray

“The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited.
The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited.
The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.”
– St. John Climac

“To become a good listener you must stop trying to fix others and refrain from inserting
your opinion into their reality.”
– unknown

“I’d love to look into your face without your eyes turning away.
  Last night I watched you sleep because a person has to try.”
– Jaymay

“It wasn’t me, it was the Lord. I always told Him, I trust you. I don’t know where
to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me. And He always did.”                        
– Harriet Tubman

“Suffering is like little splash-overs of hell waking us up from our spiritual slumber.
Splash-overs of heaven are finding Jesus in your splash-overs of hell.” 
– Joni E. Tada

“God utters me like a partial thought of himself.”
– Thomas Merton

“The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world
next to the power of God.”
– Blaise Pascal

“If it’s a symbol, to hell with it.”
– Flannery O’Connor

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