I am not dying; I am entering life. - Thérèse of Lisieux

Comprendí que el amor encierra todas las vocaciones, que el amor lo es todo, que abarca todos los tiempos y todos los lugares... en una palabra, que es eterno.

I find that trials help very much in detaching us from this earth. They make us look higher than this world. Here below, nothing can satisfy us. We cannot enjoy a little rest except in being ready to do God's will. [-] Truly, life isn't cheerful. It is very difficult to be attached to it. Au revoir, dear Pauline, my Confidante.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects — not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.