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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
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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 path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
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
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
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
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
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