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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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The path to your own happiness is usually found in 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
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
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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
Our opportunity is to visualize a kinder world.
To sing glad songs of tomorrow -
imagining a world of love -
of the whole world filled with love.
To offer our hand... often.
To breathe deeply and honor ourselves.
To pause and contemplate... just because.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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