SO GOOD QUOTES

153. YOUR COMFORT AND THE COMFORT OF OTHERS 

A noble person does not build his comfort on the weariness of others. But the noble one is he who sacrifices his comfort in order to comfort others. 

A mother might feel comfort in having her son by her side while the son, at the same time, might find comfort in being far from home. He might travel, migrate, become a monk or live on his own with a wife. Here, the noble mother would let him go without insisting on her comfort by his side.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. IV