Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Think occasionally of the suffering
of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Albert Schweitzer
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
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
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- 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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
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
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 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
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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