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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
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
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
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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 path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- 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
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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 quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- 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
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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