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Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

― Thomas Merton

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

― Thomas Merton

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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

― Thomas Merton

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

― Thomas Carlyle

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

― Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins. No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth. Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

― Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

― Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

― Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

― Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

― Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

― Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

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