Tuesday, 1 August 2023

26 August: Mother Teresa Quotes

10 Mother Teresa quotes: She was born on this date in 1910.

  1. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

  2. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  3. I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

  4. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

  5. Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realise it.

  6. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

  7. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  8. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

  9. Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

  10. I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.



Character Birthdays

Copycat, aka Katrina Bennison, member of the Power League who can absorb the powers of others. She can only absorb one set of powers at a time, and not those of her team. Her family were well off, and hence Copycat was sent to finishing school in Switzerland rather than university. After this she got a job as secretary to Professor Power. It's thought her abilities manifested around this time and that she was immune from absorbing powers from anyone she had been around before this, hence her inability to absorb her team-mates powers. She met the Power League through work and also because she and Professor Power started having an affair.

Her power first emerged when Obsidian of the Sinister Squad came to see her boss to try and negotiate a deal. Katrina shook his hand and absorbed his power. Later, Power came out of his office and asked her to make tea for them, which angered her, as she had other work to finish and had begun to resent being asked to make tea. When Power returned to his office, she made a rude gesture at the door – and shot an energy bolt through it.

Although greatly shocked at first, Katrina soon realised that both Power and Obsidian saw great value in her ability and tried to recruit her for their teams. She played them off against each other for several weeks but ultimately stayed with Power because of their affair and also because he was offering her the bigger salary.

Despite her alignment being generally evil, she does have a human side and has been known to show mercy to children and act as a mentor to younger women. She appears in Obsidian’s Ark and A Very Variant Christmas.



August, member of the Calendar Mob band of villains with the ability to teleport and drive or pilot any vehicle. Her origin story is unknown.



Obsidian's Ark

Teenage years bring no end of problems. Daniel Moran's include getting hold of computer games his parents don't think he should have; a full blown crush on the beautiful Suki from Zorostan; maintaining his status as a prefect and getting his homework done. He must also keep from his parents and sister the fact that he is a superhero with a sword from another world.

Trish wonders how to get science whizz Tom to notice her; how to persuade him that the best way to stand up to the school bully is to fight back. She doesn't want her friends, especially not Tom, to know she is a genetic variant with superpowers. Little does she know that Tom has secrets of his own.


Suki struggles to make friends at school when she cannot understand everyday cultural references, and they all suspect her of being a terrorist. She, too, has a secret, but is it what her classmates assume?


When Daniel stumbles upon a plot by an alliance of supervillains to plunge the world into war, he tries to alert the established superheroes, but none of them believe him. When the Prime Minister's only daughter, Yasmin Miller, is abducted, Daniel knows the villains' plan is underway. It seems humanity's only hope may be Daniel and the ragtag bunch of teenage superheroes he recruits. Can he pull together, not only his own team, but the older heroes as well, in a bid to save the Earth from a devastating war?


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