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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
Related topics: Inspirational Service Compassion Generosity
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- 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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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
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
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
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
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
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
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
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
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- 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
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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
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
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
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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