Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
- Topic: Courage, Patience, Peace
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
