"Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness."

-- Henry Suso

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“Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.”
“Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet is delusional. Only when most humans have died off will there be a chance to returning to a society that values all beings for who they are.”
“Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.”
“Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.”

Source : Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”
“Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”
“There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.35, Pan Macmillan
“Success is the process of not accepting failure.”

Source : Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone
“Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.”

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