The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.