As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 
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
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- 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
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- 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
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 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
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
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
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
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
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
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 do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- 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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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