“Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience makes doubt- ful what is certain, and turns a very short time into a long one. Dream boldly that the more you struggle the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Be- loved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.”

St. Teresa of Avila - 1569