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Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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
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
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
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 best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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 path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- 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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
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
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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