Remember the great love and great achievements involve great risks. The measure of love is when you love without measure. In life, there are very rare chances that you meet the person you love and who loves you in return. So once you have it, don’t ever let go—the chance might never come your way again. It’s better to lose your pride to the one you love than to lose the one you love because of pride. We spend so much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those who we already love, when instead, we should be perfecting the love we give. When you truly care for someone, you don’t look for faults, you don’t look for answers, you don’t look for mistakes. Instead, you fight the mistakes, you accept the faults, and you overlook excuses. Never abandon an old friend. You will never find one who can take his or her place. Friendship is like fine wine—it gets better as it grows older.
—Fr. Mauritius
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