Our secret creative will divines its counterpart in others, experiencing its own universality, and this intuition builds a road towards knowledge of … - Dag Hammarskjöld

I don't know Who — or what — put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone — or Something — and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

"To forgive oneself"—? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.