On having enemies

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Obedience

I don't know who - or what - put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer yes to someone - or - something - and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiving

"Forgiving people who have hurt you is your gift to them.
Forgetting people who have hurt you is your gift to you."

Freer when we bend

We not only feel freer when we bend, we actually feel taller when we bow.

G. K. Chesterton