....reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

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