"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

Persistence, Action, Consistency, Effort

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"If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts."

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"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."

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"Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there."

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"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."

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"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man."

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"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"

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"The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running."

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"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."

Joy

"Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor."

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"If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows."

Happiness

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

Morality

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."

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"Smile at each other smile at your wife smile at your husband smile at your children smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."

Relationship

"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."

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"Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead."

Ethics

"I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it."

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"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."

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