I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say,” Servant of God Dorothy Day once wrote, “and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”

Day to Day

• Progress, not perfection. Be better than the person you were yesterday
• Every smile is a direct achievement
• Certainty is terrifying. A life of faith is not a life of certainty. A life of faith is a life of doubt. -Andrew Garfield
• Love is a prayer.
• The future has an ancient heart
• I hope when people ask you what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: "Continue my bookish examinations of the contradictions and compleixties of human motivation and desire;" or maybe just "Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters." And then smile very serenely until they say, "Oh."
• sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more nothing less. Only one kind of person transforms the world spiritually, someone with a grateful heart. Rohlheiser

Minimalism and Simple Living

• "The more you have, the more occupied you are. The less you have, the more free you are. Mother Teresa
• Aspire not to have more but to be more. Archbishop Oscar Romero
• We are the sum total of our experiences. Use your money to buy experiences, not things.
• Wisdom is seeking the spiritual over the material.
• Don't waste time and energy feeling disappointed on something
• Be present. Be attentive. Just be.
• You are enough. You have enough. You do enough. Relax.

Relationships

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung.
• "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." -Jim Rohn
• "We must speak to them with our hands before we speak to them with our lips." --St. Peter Claver SJ
• The language of God is the experience God right into our lives.John of the cross

Love

• I fell in love with him the way you fall in love. Slowly, and then all at once. -Fault in our Stars, John Green
• 'How can you be sure?" "This is true love. You think this happens everyday?" The Princess Bride
• I’m in love with Montana. For other states, I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it. John Steinbeck
• Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything. Pedro Arrupe
• Hell is not to love anymore-Dorothy Day
• the best gifts are those that can be shared -David janicki
• And ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation. Kabul Gibran in the Prophet

Empowerment

• beware, I am fearless. Therefore I am powerful.
• BE NOT AFRAID

Me, Myself, and I

• The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Shakespeare.
• Live your life and others will follow.
• Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.
• Only take life advice from people who have a life you would want -Julia nunes

Spirituality

• Dorothy Day — 'My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. '
• A saint is someone who wills the one thing. -Dan
• To live is to choose. To love is to encounter. To suffer is to grow. -Sr. Laurie Brink
• “Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?” Dorothy Day
• "inspired by the social mission of the gospel"

Political

• We are not responsible for our oppression but we are responsible for our liberation. -Audre Lorde
• Having a heart for the poor isn't a challenge. It is having a mind for the poor that is.

Moving On/FORWARD, Stay Strong

• "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
• struggles and criticisms are prerequisites for greatness.
• you can’t make a new beginning but you can start now and make a brand new ending.
• Two of the hardest tests in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and he courage to accept whatever you encounter. -Paulo Cohelo
• “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” - Dalai Lama

General

• Either shit or get off the pot. -my mom
• Maya Angelou once wrote, “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
• BE WHERE YOUR FEET ARE
• Peace begins with a smile. -Mother Teresa
• Happiness is my a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling
• And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot
• “Education is your greatest weapon. With education you are the white man’s equal. Without education, you are his victim and so shall remain all of your lives. Study, learn, help one another always. Remember there is only poverty and misery in idleness and dreams. But in work there is self-respect and independence.” Chief Plenty Coups

Discernment

• BE WHO YOU ARE AND BE THAT WELL. St. Francis de Sales
• Do all the good we can, by all the means we can, in all the ways we can, in all the places we can, at all the times we can, to all the people we can, as long as we ever can.
• the term burnout is a convenient psychological translation for a spiritual death. -Henri Nouwen
• Don't let "what you do" get in the way of "what you're passionate about." Ask others what they're passionate about, not what they do. Joshua fields millburn
• Find your song, just like the woodpecker and robin. -Philip
• In choosing your next step, ask- who do I want to be around and what do I want to learn? -Alex
• What is the work you can't NOT do? Discover that. Live it. Not just for you, but for everyone around you, because that is what changes the world.
• The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou.
• "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso
• what we are before God, we are and nothing more. St Anthony of padua