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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
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
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
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
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
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
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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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
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I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
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We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- 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)
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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 miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
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
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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