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Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
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
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
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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 path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
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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
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 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.
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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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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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What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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
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
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
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
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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