Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.

Labor: a powerful medicine.

Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we need, the more we are on our way to them; the more we need, the more we sink down to this perishable life.

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.