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Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
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If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
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Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
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To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
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Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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