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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- 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
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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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
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
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 path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
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
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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 greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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