Diana

“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them what to eat, what to do, who to vote for, what to think. What to believe.

Told them to have more and more babies. Kept them pregnant and poor and ignorant.

They'd been beaten in school, scolded in church, abused in the back rooms.

And when, after generations of this, they'd finally walked away, the Church had accused them of being unfaithful. And threatened them with eternal damnation.”
― Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

“When someone stabs you it’s not your fault that you feel pain.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“We are still on our journey, still suffering and still laughing together. But I feel like the tide has turned, and I think we will have our happy ending yet. Even if it doesn’t look like what we were expecting.”
― Meg Keene, A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration