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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer

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 a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

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

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

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

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

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

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

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- 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

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

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

I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead

Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- 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.

To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin

If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton

Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually
there would be no wars and no poverty.
I have made myself personally responsible
for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- Anais Nin

The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

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

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 answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa

When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin

Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

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

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

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

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie