"Charity isn't about pity, it is about love."

-- Mother Teresa

#Charity Quotes #Pity Quotes

“Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.”

Source : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press
“I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.”
“...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?”
“I have so much of you in my heart.”

Source : John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press
“Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.”
“You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”
“The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?”
“Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.”

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