My dear Mařenka,
as for me, I know no other means to achieve perfection than "Love"... To love! How well our heart is suited for it!... Sometimes I search for another word to express love, but in the land of exile, words are unable to convey all the tremors of the soul, so we must stick to that one word: "To love!...“
(Thérèse of Lisieux, letter 109, to Marie Guérin, July 1890)