If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
What more can we require? Nothing but time.
We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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