"The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more we sorrow in the present, the greater will our joy in the future."
"The inner life of another that is known to God alone becomes to a much less degree open to us through friendship. It partially fills the desire of our incomplete, lonely hearts for completeness in another. Friendship brings out the best in a person through forgetfulness of self." - St. Thomas Aquinas