Thoughts

"Character is both formed and influenced in the world of your thoughts.  If you are master in your thoughts, you are master everywhere.  If you have learned to control your thoughts, you have yourself completely under control.  If you have a kind heart, your words and deeds will also be kind.  If you fostered more kind thoughts, you would necessarily be richer also in kind deeds.  It must, therefore, be very important to cultivate kind thoughts." - The Hidden Power of Kindness by Lawrence G. Lovasik.

Gossip

'To gossip means to talk needlessly about the faults and failings of others and even to invent such faults and failings where none exist.  To gossip means to watch closely the conduct of one's neighbour and to indulge in unwarranted criticism of his motives and in rash judgement as to the nature of his sins.
'Gossip is the most common of all sins of the tongue.  Although often called harmless, it is in fact rarely so because it hits at character...
'Gossip is drawing a wrong picture or drawing a picture you have no right to draw.  Careless gossip is no to be tossed off light.  God's command is "Thou shalt not bear false witness."...
'Gossip may also give the right picture and still be gossip because it is drawn for those who have no right to see it." - The Hidden Power of Kindness  by Lawrence G. Lovasik

Qualities

'Go around the room and pick out three beautiful qualities in each member of your family.  We do that in the monastery.  The sisters will say, "Mother, you're generous, understanding and loving."  I say, "I can buy that."  Then I began to wonder.  I think, "Angelica, if you are all these beautiful things, how come you're impatient and have a hot temper?"  And I began to reason, and I found that I am generous by nature, with things and my talent, but I was not generous with my time.  If a sister came up to me and I was in a hurry, I would say, "What are you bugging me now with this trite little thing for?"
'God had already planted into my heart a tool:  generosity.  When I worked on being more generous, that thing that I already am, I suddenly become patient.  So point out the virtues of your family members - build on those, and the rest will fall away.'  Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality

Working Women

"I have never understood myself how this superstition arose: the notion that a woman plays a lowly part in the home and a loftier part outside the home...  Most work done in the outer world is pretty mechanical work; some of it is decidedly dirty work.  There seems no possible sense in which it is intrinsically superior to domestic work." - Brave New Family by G.K. Chesterton

Morgan Weistling 

Mothers

"How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?" - Brave New Family by G.K. Chesterton

Mother Reading With Two Girls by Lee Lufkin Kaula

Over Population

"The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population, or if he is not, how he knows he is not." - Introduction to A Christmas Carol

Gaetano Bellei (1857 – 1922, Italian)

Saturday

"You aspire to great things, begin with little ones," - St. Augstine