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Suppose our gratitude could be zero-based gratitude.
With zero-based gratitude,
we would be grateful for everything we had each day -
regardless of whether it was more or less than yesterday.
With zero-based gratitude, I can be grateful for all the people,
the love, the food, the shelter, the services,
the health, that I am blessed with today,
regardless of what I had yesterday.
With zero-based gratitude,
I can be grateful each day for the gift of life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
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
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
If physical death is the price
that I must pay to free my brothers and sisters
from a permanent death of the spirit,
then nothing can be more redemptive.
- 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
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
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
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- 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
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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