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We are not here to solve the problems the problems are here to solve us.

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Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
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Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.
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The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.
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We become the books we read.
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When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
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Let your life be guided by greatness
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
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Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
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Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.
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Our lives change when our habits change.
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The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives
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Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.
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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
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Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
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Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.
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Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.
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On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.
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God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
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Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.
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Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
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