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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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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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- 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 answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- 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
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
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.
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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