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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
Related topics: Values
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
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
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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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- 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
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
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
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
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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
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
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- 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
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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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