Do not depend on the hope of results . . .you may have to face the fact that
your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if
not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this
idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the
value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. . . .you gradually
struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. . .
In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
-- Thomas Merton