You don't need to retire to a cloister or the desert for years on end to experience a true dark night; you don't even have to be pursuing any particular "spiritual" path. Raising a challenged child, or caring for a failing parent for years on end, is at least as purgative as donning robes and shaving one's head; to endure a mediocre work situation for the sake of the paycheck that sustains a family demands at least as much in the way of daily surrender to years of pristine silence in a monastery. No one can know in advance how and where the night will come, and what form God's darkness will take. Tim Farrington
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  1. We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.
  2. Remember that we're living in a place that is temporary. No matter what you believe in the end of time I don't care about it. As of now.. live your life, cut those negative thoughts and actions, reach your dreams and goals.
  3. People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.
  4. You don't need to understand what the world is, just let your life flow with it and become something
  5. The world is unfair, oh yes, live your life to achieve.
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