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"I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness."
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"Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."
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"Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things."
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"Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all."
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
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"The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity."
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"Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it."
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"If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!"
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"To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity."
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"Charity (Daan) means to make another living being happy, whether it is a human being or some animals, giving happiness to them, that is what is called Charity. When you give happiness to everyone, happiness will indeed come to you in its 'reaction'. If you give happiness then you immediately receive happiness just sitting at home."
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"Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity."
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"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."
Love
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
"It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions."
Life
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
Grief
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
Desire
"... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy."
Love
"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
Memory
"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."
Art
"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things."
Life
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Wisdom
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