If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will be two less holes.

An agenda serves myself, while a conviction serves everyone except myself.

To make something alive, put yourself in it instead of just putting your hands on it.

Sacrifice is realizing that the depth of my need can only be quenched by giving away the soul of myself.

If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this.

If I am a compilation of nothing but myself, I will have lived a life where I became nothing more than myself. And while it might be true that we all begin with ourselves, to end there is to end in a terribly small place.

If my actions do not exceed the reach of my grasp, I will have lived out my life in the sphere of self rather than the world of another. And I can hardly define that as living.

Impacting a life is not so much about what we did for another. Rather, it was more about what we sacrificed in doing it. For the ‘thing’ is certain to fade with time, but the ‘sacrifice’ will be nurtured by it.

Do I place more importance on the gift, or what it cost the person to give me the gift? And if I miss the latter because I focused on the former, my own ignorance has robbed me of both.