오늘의 '하루 한 대목'으로 원순닷컴의 '나눔에 관한 격언들'을 골랐습니다. 가끔 읽어보면서 힘을 얻고 싶습니다.
나눔에 관한 격언들
아름다운재단에 늘 기부를 해 주고 계시는 이찬승 능률교육 대표이사께서 다음과 같은 나눔에 관한 격언들을 보내주시면서 내 강연등에 사용하면 좋지 않겠느냐고 하셨다. 모두 어딘가에서 모은 것이니 함께 나누는 것이 당연하지 않느냐는 것이었다. 자주 이메일을 주고 받는 진주의 김종봉신부님은 늘 이메일 마지막에 이런 말씀을 적어 놓았다. "거저 얻었으니 거저 주어라"고. 함께 이 좋은 나눔의 격언들을 나누고 음미해 보자.
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
-Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't.
I think it's an on-going process.
And it's not just about being able to write a check.
It's being able to touch somebody's life
베풂은 중단할 수 없는 것이라고 생각해요. 저도 늘 베풀지요.
베푸는 행위는 지속적인 과정입니다.
그것은 수표 한 장을 써 줄 수 있는 마음에 관한 것이 아닙니다.
베풂은 다른 사람의 삶을 어루만지는 행위입니다.
-Oprah Winfrey
Giving is true having.
베푸는 것이 진정한 소유이다.
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share.
행복의 비결은 소유나 받음에 있지 않고 나눔에 있다.
-Source Unknown
You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
버는 것으로는 겨우 생계를 유지하지만, 베풂은 자신의 삶을 규정한다.
-Source Unknown Winston Churchill
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
행복은 남을 행복하게 할 때 얻게 되는 부산물이다.
-Gretta Brooker Palmer
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
이 세상에서 진정 행복할 수 있는 사람은 어떻게 남에게 봉사할 것인가를 찾아낸 사람들뿐이다. - Albert Schweitzer
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but
in deed and in truth. (John 3:18)
말로만 사랑하지 말자.
혀로만 사랑하지 말자.
행동으로 그리고 진실로 사랑하자.
“How strange is the lot of us mortals!
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;
for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it.
But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
~ Albert Einstein
언젠간 죽게 되어 있는 인간의 운명이란 이해할 수 없는 것!
우리는 모두 이 땅에 잠시 머물다 간다.
살아가는 이유를 어렴풋이 느낄 수는 있어도 알 수는 없는 채.
깊이 생각해보지 않고도 우리는 타인을 위해 존재한다는 것을 일상의 삶을 통해 알아 간다.
Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
인간은 누구나 봉사를 통해 위대해질 수 있다.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.
누구나 훌륭한 사람이 될 수 있다. 왜냐하면 누구나 봉사할 수 있기 때문이다.
The noblest question in the world is, "What good may I do in it?"
이 세상에서 가장 훌륭한 질문은 “내가 이 세상에 살면서 내가 어떤 선행을 할 수 있을까?”이다.
-Benjamin Franklin
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
100명을 먹고살게 해줄 수 없다면 단 한 명이라도 먹고 살 수 있게 양식을 주어라.
-Mother Teresa
“We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
우리는 이 세상에서 위대한 일을 할 수는 없다. 그러나 위대한 사랑의 힘으로 작은 일들은 할 수 있다.
-Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
인간에 있어서 가장 심각한 질병은 아무에게도 도움이 되지 못하는 존재가 되는 것이다. -Mother Teresa
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?”
나는 천국이 어떤 곳인지 잘 모른다. 그러나 우리가 죽어 하나님의 심판을 받을 때 그 분은 ‘생전에 무슨 선행을 베풀었는지보다는 일을 할 때 얼마나 사랑을 쏟아 했는가’라고 질문을 할 것임은 안다.
-Mother Teresa
“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
-Mother Teresa
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
-Helen Keller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
-Helen Keller
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
-Lucy Larcom
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
-W. Beran Wolfe
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
-Ray Lyman Wilbur
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
-James Freeman Clarke
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
-Madame De Maintenon
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
-Herman Melville
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. -Dick Gregory
Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least.
-Charley Willey
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-Albert Pine
No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
-Andrew Carnegie
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-Kahlil Gibran
“When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.”
-Mother Teresa
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