I absolutely love this quite from Pope Francis !
"River do not drink their own water.
Trees do not eat their own fruit.
The sun does not shine on itself.
And flowers do not spread their fragrance
for themselves.
Living for others is a rule of nature.
No matter how difficult it is ...
Life is good when you are happy;
but much better when others are happy
because of you."
Above quote may not be by Pope Francis
Above image and quote have been circulated
in social media, Facebook, for example.
Versions of the quote have also been widely shared
online in Spanish,
with varying attributions.
Some posts claim Pope Francis said it,
others have no attribution.
Snopes.com can't find Pope Francis said it
Snopes.com
( https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pope-francis-rivers-do-not-drink/ )
couldn't find any record of
Francis making this statement.
An early version of it appeared on the internet
well before Francis became pope in 2013.
Details
A communications expert and amateur poet
who uses the pen name Gonzalinho da Costa
traced a similar statement to a 2009 post
on a website called
Meditation Relaxation Sans Stress.
It is archived in this link
https://web.archive.org/web/20201011045759/https://sites.google.com/site/meditationrelaxationsansstress/seva
There, the quote says:
"We know that trees do not eat their own fruits
cows do not drink their own milk
rivers dont drink their own water
Let us also learn to serve our sisters brothers
and all objects of nature
To secure our present and humanity's future"
The website linked the words to the Vedas,
ancient Hindu scriptures.
The name Prof Lallan Prasad appeared
under the words.
Snopes.com reached out to a
University of Delhi professor with that same name,
asking if he wrote the words or knows their origin.
No update yet.
A similar quote
A very similar quote appeared in the
2019 role playing game "Days Gone."
A character in the game, Rikki, states:
"Rivers do not drink their own water.
Trees do not eat their own fruit.
And clouds do not swallow their own rain.
What great ones have is always
for the benefit of others."
As of this writing
As of this writing,
Snopes.com hasn't found
the original source of the quote.
No evidence it was a statement made by
Pope Francis.
However, and as noted above,
what appears to be an original online version
of the quote was posted four years
before he became pope.
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