Trying to reestablish the routine…My whole Lent, fasting, prayer, writing, everything is off. Distraction. I need to recommit to focus and small victories. I don’t need a homerun, but a bunt single, passed ball, stolen base. Gotta scrap.
Typically, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids’ lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, but 2-4 get handwritten napkins, but today, all digital. Ugh.
Visual credits to: Featured image – @Subr475 Quotes: @Gentleman_Ways @KnowledgeArchiv @arealmofwonder @fraveris
Quotes:
1. “Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little.” – Theodore Roosevelt
2.“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” – Mark Twain
3. “In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.” – St. John of the Cross
4. “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.” – Dan Brown
Bonus quote: “Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.” – William Shakespeare
Sources:
“Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little.”
– Theodore Roosevelt pic.twitter.com/9ZzBEWjyPQ
— The Ways of A Gentleman (@Gentleman_Ways) March 5, 2026
“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
—Mark Twain pic.twitter.com/3RYn977HpU
— The Knowledge Archivist (@KnowledgeArchiv) March 5, 2026
“In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.”
~ St. John of the Cross pic.twitter.com/kvQN8naOuC— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) March 1, 2026
“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
Photography by Hengki Lee pic.twitter.com/sCSmOlvgkL
— Francisco Ribeiro (@fraveris) March 4, 2026
“Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.”William Shakespeare
‘The Winter’s Tale’ pic.twitter.com/7Qu7ikGIgq— Susan Bradford (@Subr475) March 1, 2026