Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Neither need we trouble ourselves if a few fail.
It is in the nature of things that many should fall, that troubles should come, that tremendous difficulties should arise, that selfishness and all the other devils in the human heart should struggle hard when they are about to be driven out by the fire of spirituality.
The road to the Good is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall.
Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to J J Goodwin
from Switzerland (August 1896)
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