Yes, this is love, this, the truth...

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

— Kahlil Gibran

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Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so.

—Emile Corie

Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves.

—Saint Francis De Sales

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Stolen From The Writer's Almanac

Manners
by Howard Nemerov

Prig offered Pig the first chance at dessert,
So Pig reached out and speared the bigger part.
"Now that," cried Prig, "is extremely rude of you!"
Pig, with his mouth full, said, "Wha, wha' wou' 'ou do?"
"I would have taken the littler bit," said Prig.
"Stop kvetching, then, it's what you've got," said Pig.
So virtue is its own reward, you see.
And that is all it's ever going to be.

from Trying Conclusions. © University of Chicago Press. Reprinted without permission.