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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
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
Think occasionally of the suffering
of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Albert Schweitzer
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
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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
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- 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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
And so, my fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
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
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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