A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
May Knowledge reshape your lives so that your greater destiny may come into view
Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.
You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true.
You must learn to live with the big questions and wait for the next steps to arise. Only with this patience and perseverance, can Heaven really trust you and rely upon you in the world. Oh my, I have had to wait for so many things!
We are here for the world, not for our comfort only.
Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.
Size counts. That's all.
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.