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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
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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
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
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- 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.
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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