"Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue."

-- Thomas Brooks

#Mother Quotes #Spring Quotes #Saint Quotes

“The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.”
“The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.”
“Obey me as I obey God and His Messenger; if I disobey them, then you should disobey me.”
“The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.”
“Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.”
“Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.”
“We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.”

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