To love for the sake of being loved is human,
yet to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
~ Alphonse de LaMartine
If others could tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and perfection, they must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for every that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing . . .