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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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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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
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
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
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
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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
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