Series of quotes ...

"Creativity implies not only the full use of one's capacities, but also includes going beyond them into previously unexplored areas."
William Shultz

"Never see a need without trying to do something about it."
Mary Mackillop

"In the midst of a turbulent, often chaotic life we are called to reach out, with courageous honesty to our innermost self, with relentless care to our fellow human beings and with increasing prayer to our God."
Henri J. Nouwen

"It is not what you are, nor what you have been, that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you would wish to be."
The Cloud of Unknowing

"Grace is being willing to be your whole self."
Sam Kleen

"Be attentive to my voice. Then I will be your God, and you will be my people."
Jeremiah 7:23

"It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards 'having' rather than 'being', and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself."
John Paul II

"Jesus is living next to you, in the brothers and sisters with whom you share your daily existence."
John Paul II

All the good that you will do will come not from you but from the fact that you have allowed yourself to be used by God's love. Think of this more and gradually you will be free from the need to prove yourself and you can be more open to the power that will work through you without your knowing it.
Thomas Merton

What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love and it will decide everything.
Pedro Arrupe S.J.