"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

Francis De Sales, St. | Action | 7 bookmarks

"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. | Giving | 3 bookmarks

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

Francis of Assisi, St. | Love | 7 bookmarks

"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."

Francis of Assisi, St. | Cheerfulness | 2 bookmarks

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."

Francis De Sales, St. | Individuality | 1 bookmarks

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -"

Francis De Sales, St. | Patience | 3 bookmarks

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

Francis De Sales, St. | Quarrels | 5 bookmarks

"Do not wish to be anything except what you are."

Francis De Sales, St. | Self-love | 3 bookmarks

"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa | Suffering | 3 bookmarks

"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love."

Mother Teresa | Things and Little Things | 2 bookmarks