"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom."

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Source : Karl Rahner (1965). “Encounters with silence”

Karl Rahner

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Source : Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.128, Univ of South Carolina Press
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“The pain doesn't go away, you just make room for it.”

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