To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.