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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)
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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
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
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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 brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
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
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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