"Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility."

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In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.

— Thomas Merton