First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.

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Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis in Imitation of Christ
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

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