A Quote by Jerold Panas
What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.
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It is time for you to make a commitment to create joy, creativity and love for yourself, only then will you benefit others, for if you do not evolve yourself, you do not serve others. By becoming a living example, by following what is in your heart, you show the way for others to follow with courage, what is in their hearts.
Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.
What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit ourselves.
Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
