You
rush from one extreme to another. The only true way to live in this
world, constituted just as we are, is to make all our employments subserve the
one great end and aim of existence, namely, to glorify God and to enjoy Him
forever. But in order to do this we must be wise taskmasters and not
require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must
have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural
tension, will break.
Elizabeth Prentiss
If you have
a positive attitude and constantly
strive to give your best effort,
eventually
you will overcome your immediate problems
and find you
are ready for greater challenges.
A mature
person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who
is able to be objective even when deeply stirred
emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and
bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly
and deals charitably with the circumstances of life,
knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and
therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Having
once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and
distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome
labor is immense.
There
are as many nights as days, and the one is just as
long as the other in the year’s course.Even a happy life cannot be without a measure
of darkness, and the word “happiness” would lose
its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.It is far better to take things as they come
along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Gustav Jung