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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
Related topics: Values
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
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
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No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
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Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
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What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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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A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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 answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- 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
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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