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Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- mother teresa -

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- ambrose redmoon -

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
- doris mortman -

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
- alan saporta -

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
- jewish proverb -

5 qualities of a pencil...

...which, if you manage to hang on them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.

1. You are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.

2. Now and then, stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he’s much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

3. The pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.

4. What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

5. It always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.

- “Like the Flowing River” by Paulo Coelho -

good suffering

1. Suffering helps us realize our urgent need for redemption.

2. Suffering helps us experience our dependence on God and our interdependence with one another.

3. Suffering helps us distinguish between necessities and luxuries.

4. Suffering helps us respond to the call of the gospel because we may have become so desperate that we cry out to God.

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