“Do not surrender to the sadness that only serves to destroy our best energies … expand your heart and let the sun that gives life to joy enter into it. Joy, but with so many trials? Look what I tell you: who have you seen yet without a cross? The cross follows us wherever we go and we must carry it; and, if we do not want to lift it generously and carry it in our arms for embraces, that is to say; with all the ardor of our heart, which will make it more light, we will have to take it behind us, dragging it.”
~ Bernardo Vasconcelos, OSB