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Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aristotle
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Bernard Meltzer
There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Etienne de Grellet
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
G. Donald Gale
A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.
Gerald Jampolsky
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Gurdjieff
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
Helen Keller
We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.
Henri Frederick Amiel
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
Henry Van Dyke
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
Kahil Gibran
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Lao Tzu
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
Leo Buscaglia
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Marianne Larned
Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.
Marianne Williamson
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
Mother Teresa
To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.
Mother Teresa
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
Mother Teresa
Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
 
 
 
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