willingness

Excerpts from Disciplining the Soul & Breaking The Two Desires by Ghazali "As long as worship and the renunciation of forbidden things are felt to be unpleasant and burdensome their performance will be defective, and cannot bring one to full felicity. Certainly the struggle to persevere with them is a good thing, but only in comparison with abandoning them, not in comparison of doing them willingly. "

One small loss prevents greater losses..

"Whatever you lost through the stroke of destiny, Know it was to save you from adversity. One small affliction keeps off greater afflictions; one small loss prevents greater losses." -Rumi

Lincoln's wisdom

"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own" - Abraham Lincoln