"To hope is to risk frustration. Therefore, make up your mind to risk frustration."
"Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempt anything."
"It is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you pretend that someone is keeping you from exercising your liberty. Who is this? It is you yourself ?"
(from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton).
"Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempt anything."
"It is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you pretend that someone is keeping you from exercising your liberty. Who is this? It is you yourself ?"
(from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton).
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