Little Nothings and Many Musings: March 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012

Someone Loves Me

Whenever I am tempted to feel lonely or unwanted, I must remember: Someone loves me. The very fact that I exist proves it. Someone loved me into existence. And my parents welcomed me with open arms and hearts in an echo of that Love.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

URL change

For those that are interested, the URL for my blog will be changing to "littlenothings-nataliann.blogspot.com" as of Friday, March 23 2012.

Beauty

Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. Beauty resides in the beautiful thing itself. It will either have proportion, wholeness, integrity, and clarity in itself and be from God, or it will not have those qualities and will be displeasing to the discerning soul and will therefore be ugly.
--Fr. Anthony J. Brankin

Thursday, March 1, 2012

"Preach Always- When Necessary, Use Words"

As for those virtues that you most desire another to exhibit, do not preach to him in an attempt to open his eyes. Rather, acquire those virtues yourself, and practice them daily, so as to be an example for him.

Favorite Quotes

"Viva Christo Rey!"
-- Bl. Miguel Pro

"Never let anyone steal your joy."
-- Grandaddy

"I find that laughing at oneself is a very healthy practice. It keeps one both humble and amused."
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"My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east on the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia."
-- Reepicheep, in C.S. Lewis' book The Dawn Treader

"Everything that happens to you, happens because God wants it to."
-- Mom

"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there be any excellence, and if there be anything worthy of praise, think about these things."
-- St Paul to the Philippians, Ch. 4 Vs. 8

"So Others May Live"
-- United States Coast Guard

"So Others May Live Eternally"
-- Catholic Priests

"This, too, shall pass."
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"Whenever something disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified, and be silent."
-- St. John of the Cross

"If you can't say 'no' to yourself, you are a spiritual pipsqueak."
-- Mother Angelica

"The problem is not that Christianity has been tried and found inadequate--it is that it has never been tried."
-- G.K. Chesterton, parahrased

"Learn, O man, to obey. God so humbled Himself as to be subject to Mary and Joseph, and do you exalt yourself?"
--St. Boniface

"He is not a fool, who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
--(concerning the temporal life vs. the eternal)

“To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.” -- Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, someday we will become what we see."
--Jewel

"Live your life with a LOT of exclamation points."
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