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Life with trials hard may press me; Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. ↗

— Henry F. Lyte

#heaven #trials #trouble #life

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ↗

— Curtis Carlson

#destination #each #goal #i #journey

But little or great, suffering accepted and offered to Our Lord produces peace and serenity. When it is not accepted, the soul is out of tune and its internal rebellion is shown externally in gloom or bad temper. We have to make a conscious decision to take up and carry the little Cross of every day with determination. Suffering can be sent to us by God to purify many things in our past life or to strengthen our virtues and to unite us to the sufferings of Christ our Redeemer, who, in his innocence, suffered the punishment due to our sins. ↗

— Francis Fernandez

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To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#the-true-believer #life

[Morgana to Janie] Now get out of my way, or finish life as a pile of cinders. ↗

— L.J. Smith

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It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do....Now, with so much, it was daily a decision: what was necessary, what was frivolous...It was so much gray--so little black and white; for a year she'd spent more of her time questioning herself and how she lived in Truth than she had done altogether in her life. ↗

— Laura Kinsale

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Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#joy #life

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#being #dig #forgo #garden #generation

But how do you see you?" she asked. "Ever read The Brothers Karamazov?" I asked. "Once, a long time ago." "Well, toward the end, Alyosha is speaking to a young student named Kolya Krasotkin. And he says, Kolya, you're going to have a miserable future. But overall, you'll have a happy life." Two beers down, I hesitated before opening my third. "When I first read that, I didn't know what Alyosha meant," I said. "How was it possible for a life of misery to be happy overall? But then I understood, that misery could be limited to the future." "I have no idea what you're talking about." "Neither do I," I said. "Not yet. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

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