None is there but will be compelled, in the long run, to
give up everything. And the more one struggles against this law, the more
miserable one feels.
It is because we dare not give, because we are not resigned
enough to accede to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable.
The wood is gone, but we get heat in return.
The sun is taking up water from the ocean, to return it in
showers.
You are a machine for taking and giving: you take, in order
to give. Ask, therefore, nothing in return; but the more you give, the more
will come to you.
The quicker you can empty the air out of this room, the
quicker it will be filled up by the external air; and if you close all the
doors and every aperture, that which is within will remain, but that which is
outside will never come in, and that which is within will stagnate, degenerate,
and become poisoned.
A river is continually emptying itself into the ocean and is
continually filling up again.
Swami Vivekananda