If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.
Too much agreement kills the chat.
Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.