Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 4
Fragment ID: 15495
That is right [to remain confident, cheerful and hopeful]. The rest is the remnant of the attack – such an attack, sudden and violent, as sometimes, indeed often comes when one is making full progress to the straight and open way. It cannot permanently deflect the progress and, when it disappears, there is usually a chance of going on more firmly and swiftly towards the goal. That is what we must do now.