Morning Briefings

If your life is free from clingy friends, aggressive employees, hypocritical colleagues, controlling relatives, indecisive coworkers, insensitive bosses or any other descriptions that fall under ‘difficult people’ consider yourself blessed, and extremely rare.

– Les Parrot
High-Maintenance Relationships

A greeting is a minimal yet meaningful conferral of honor on a person for just being a person. With it, not only do we acknowledge and validate, but we also put to ease and wish well.

– P.M. Forni
Choosing Civility

Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels.

– Hebrews 13:2

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

– Abraham Lincoln

Words–and the way our actions do or don’t stand behind their meaning–have an incredible capacity to wound us or heal us. Words create reality, for we all invest in one another’s words with our hopes, fears and expectations.

– Daphne Rose Kingma
True Love

Our problems would not seem so great if we could count on the love and help of our brothers and sisters and they, in turn, could count on us.

– Randy Hain
Expanding our Hearts, Catholic Business Journal

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.

– Luke 22:32

The American tradition of ‘trick-or-treating’ probably dates back to the early All Souls’ Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called ’soul cakes’ in return for their promises to pray for their family’s dead relatives.

– History.com

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.

– As attributed to Miguel de Cervantes in
Matthew Kelly’s Rediscovering Catholicism