Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is
above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks
all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. It is therefore
able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and brings
them to a conclusion, where he who does not love, faints and lies down.
-- Thomas a Kempis
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolute who is able
to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned
that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who
walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life,
knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us
need both love and charity....