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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
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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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
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
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
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
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
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
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
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
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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