Private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.

As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Inside-out

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice