Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

-
Rainer Marie Rilke

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It’s not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy — frolicking and eager — that’s who you are. And so, if you’re always reaching for alignment with that, you’re always on your path, and your path will take you into all kinds of places. We will not deny that you will not discover miracles and create benefits and be involved in creation, and that you will not uplift humanity…we will not say that you will not find satisfaction in so many things that you create, but we can’t get away from the acknowledgment that you are Pure Positive Energy that translates into the human emotion of joy.

—
Abraham/Esther Hicks

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

—
Louise Erdrich
from The Painted Drum


到底要用多少愛與慈悲，才可以感動一個人？還要退後多少步，對方才會明白我跟他或他熟悉的那些人不一樣？又要有多少忍讓，對方才會知道我不是他想的那麼笨，我只是不喜歡計較？要微笑到什麼時候，他才會發現我的沉默不是軟弱？我的寬容只是因為我珍惜這一場相遇？

我不會耍手段，因為我打心底裡瞧不起耍手段這回事；當然，真要耍起來，我也不行。我不喜歡勾心鬥角、不喜歡算計，因為我壓根兒覺得這樣的人生很累；當然，我也沒有算計和勾心鬥角的天份。可是，想用愛與慈悲去感化一個人，是不是終究太自大了？慈悲是好東西，慈悲到近乎軟弱，那並不是好東西。

要是一個人能夠用他忙於算計、諂媚、嫉妒和破壞別人的時間來做點正事，他的人生肯定比現在有成就和意義。可他們為什麼沒有這樣想？當他失意的時候，假如他能夠檢討自己，而不是遷怒於別人，他是不是可以更快爬起來？要是他懂得擦亮眼睛，看得清真情和假意，他是不是會比現在過得好？
要是對方浪擲我的愛與慈悲，我也只能沉默，當做修煉。這樣想的時候，我才不會覺得感傷，我的信念才不會動搖。到了最後，所有不珍惜的人，都會成為過去。

Source from here.