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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
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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 way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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 answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
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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
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
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
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
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
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
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
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
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
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
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
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
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
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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