Nice Quotes on Patience with your Faults

I learned a good habit from my father -- take a book with you wherever you go. This habit goes well with visits to doctor's waiting rooms and with hour-long trips to get to the regional medical center for Aidan's GI clinic.

Today I brought Karen Andreola's Charlotte Mason Companion and this quote from Ruskin struck me:

“You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.”

It's such a nice thought. DO you think it's true?

St Francis de Sales seems to say rather the same thing:

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

One more quote from John Ruskin -- I like the way he says things!

“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.”

OK -- one ONE more, as my children say! This one isn't exactly philosophical, but maybe more philosophical than it looks at first reading, and certainly something that this dilatory cook needs to post on her kitchen wall!

“What does cooking mean? It means the knowledge of Media and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits. and balms and spices.... I means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively, that everyone has something nice to eat.”