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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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"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."
"My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp."
"Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self - esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems."
"Life is easier lived when lived for others."
"Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life."
"A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it."
"Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good."
"Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself."
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"In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence."
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
"Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
"It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love."
"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."
"Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy."
"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things."
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