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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
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"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish."
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"It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself."
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"To really be of help to others we need to be guided by compassion."
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"I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn't need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It's one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation's incompetence."
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"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's."
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"The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else."
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"To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything."
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"If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity."
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"Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear."
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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
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"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
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"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
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"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
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"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
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"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
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"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."
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"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
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"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."
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"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
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