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Let these quotes by Marion Wright Edelman help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
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
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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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The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- 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
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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 you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
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
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
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
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
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
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
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
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
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
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