The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. Only yesterday you were telling God that you were nothing, a mere worm in the dust. Come on, humble yourself, and cease to care what men think. While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship.
Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake.
There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty . The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery. They are two different worlds. The way of love is therefore the easy way. The way of loveless duty is the hard way.