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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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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson 
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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 high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
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
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
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
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
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- 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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
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
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
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
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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