Quote by Thomas Merton
"Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may never see any results. But you are not asked to see results; you are asked to be faithful."
More from Thomas Merton
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image."
"Happiness is not something that comes ready-made. It comes from your own actions."