If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
– Thomas à Kempis
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
– Emerson
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For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
– St. Francis of Assisi