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 
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- 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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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 high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
The greatest 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
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
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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
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.
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
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
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
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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